🚨New report
📝Behind closed doors, Big Tech is writing the standards that will govern their own AI systems
❌The EU should not outsource public policy-making on fundamental rights to private bodies
👉 https://corporateeurope.org/en/2025/01/bias-baked
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📝Behind closed doors, Big Tech is writing the standards that will govern their own AI systems
❌The EU should not outsource public policy-making on fundamental rights to private bodies
👉 https://corporateeurope.org/en/2025/01/bias-baked
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🤖 Worryingly, the AI Act is the first time 'harmonised standards' will be used to implement rules on fundamental rights, bias, and transparency.
https://corporateeurope.org/en/2025/01/bias-baked
55% of experts working on AI standards in CEN-CENELEC are from companies or consultancies w/ a large share from Big Tech. Only 9% are from civil society
But they are struggling in the face of corporate interests with endless resources.
3 national delegations to CEN-CENELEC - Germany, the UK, and Ireland - are regularly headed by Microsoft representatives
Microsoft also sponsored and co-hosted a plenary session of CEN-CENELEC in 2024.
👉 https://corporateeurope.org/en/2025/01/bias-baked
Big Tech representatives in CEN-CENELEC are pushing hard to get international standards adopted – which are even more industry-friendly.
👉 https://corporateeurope.org/en/2025/01/bias-baked
🤖 Now tech firms are drafting the rules on how to implement the AI Act.
https://corporateeurope.org/en/2024/03/trojan-horses-how-european-startups-teamed-big-tech-gut-ai-act