Opinion

November 29, 2023

Mistral, Aleph Alpha and Big Tech’s lobbying on AI safety will hurt startups

For a startup to meet safety standards under the EU AI Act, they'll need information and safety guarantees from general-purpose AI model developers. They're not getting it


Jaan Tallinn and Risto Uuk

5 min read

Jaan Tallinn and Risto Uuk

As negotiations on the AI Act unfold, there have been efforts to replace hard regulation for general-purpose AI models with soft codes of conduct. 

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Jaan Tallinn

Jaan Tallinn is a founding engineer of Skype and Kazaa. He is also a partner at Ambient Sound Investments (asi.ee), an active angel investor, and has served on the Estonian President’s Academic Advisory Board. He is also a philanthropist in the field of existential risk.

Risto Uuk

Risto Uuk is the EU Research Lead at the Future of Life Institute, leading research efforts on EU AI policy as well as hosting the AI Act website and running the AI Act newsletter. Previously, he has worked for the World Economic Forum and European Commission on trustworthy AI projects.

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