Google's Legal Officer Chief: Artificial Intelligence Rules Must Support Innovation

Jakarta - Google's Chief Legal Officer, Kent Walker, stated that on Tuesday 28 November that the rules governing the use of artificial intelligence (AI) must support innovation. The statement is in line with the calls of various businesses and technology groups. Meanwhile the European Union is competing to approve AI's rules next month.

European Union and Legislator member countries are currently discussing the last details of the proposal draft compiled by the European Commission and trying to reach an agreement on December 6.

One of the biggest issues is the basic model, such as OpenAI's chatgpt, which is an AI system that is trained with a large data collection, with the ability to learn from new data to carry out various tasks.

Walker said that Europe should try to have the best AI rules, not the first AI rules. "Technology leadership requires a balance between innovation and regulation. Not regulating progress in too detail, but holding the actor is responsible when they violate public trust," Walker said in a speech to be delivered at the European Business Summit.

Walker calls for a difficult trade-off between security and openness, between data access and privacy, between the ability to explain and accuracy, with proportional risk-based rules that build up to existing regulations and provide trust to businesses to continue to invest in AI innovation .

Digitaleurope business groups and 32 European digital associations last week warned the European Union not to impose excessive regulations on this basic model.