Technological sovereignty

Two, EU AI Act can tackle rogue AI agents.

Hena Verkoenen, the European Commission's Executive Vice President for Tech Sovereignty, followed with the EU view of AI.

Not surprisingly, she made multiple references to the EU AI Act and reminding the 1,500 delegates that it applies to every provider wherever they are based when deploying in the EU.

She acknowledged with some candor that there were no AI agents when the Act was adopted, but that the Act now has to and can deal with them.

So if we want to create category leadership in Europe, I think we need to be clear about what we mean by sovereignty.

Of course, there's been a lot of talk recently about tech sovereignty.

Yeah, I mean, for the last two years, because for us Europeans, it really does matter.

Because we've got a boys club of US AI companies hoovering up the world's available public and certainly private capital.

At Labour's conference, the same argument was on the ballot paper twice.

The subject heading, called Tech Sovereignty, which held a motion naming Palantir the £330 million contract and the break clause, drew 20,760 constituency votes and finished 12th of 36.

It will not be debated.

The subject that did go through on artificial intelligence in the interest of working people drew more than one and a half million affiliate votes, and it names no company anywhere in its text.