00:00Good morning.
00:00Great to have you with us.
00:02Yes, thank you.
00:02Look, the big news, of course, breaking this morning.
00:05Is happening in New Delhi.
00:06Tell us more about how this EU trade deal with India.
00:10Of course, it's a very important deal from the European Union.
00:15Because together, the European Union and India, we are two biggest democracies in the world.
00:20And I think this is great news for everybody.
00:22So more business opportunities for our SME.
00:25For our industries, also for our service providers.
00:28And of course, also for them.
00:30Especially when it comes to technologies, we are working also together with India.
00:35We have our technology partnership also with India.
00:38And especially when...
00:40When we are looking at the talent part, we know that India is having very much...
00:45ICT experts and talents that we are really lacking workforce in Europe.
00:48So this is now the...
00:50A field where we are working together with India.
00:52Also to attract more talented ICT.
00:55experts from India to work in Europe.
00:57Okay.
00:57See if your work got out for you there.
01:00Can you just talk to us about the investigation that you've launched this week against Elon Musk's controversial...
01:05AI chat box, Grok.
01:06Tell us more about your findings here.
01:09We opened...
01:10Also formally investigation yesterday on this topic, especially now to invest...
01:15How X has been assessing and mitigating the risks.
01:19So it's...
01:20It's an obligation under DSA that always the service providers, they have to...
01:25assess and mitigate the systematic risks, which they are posing and now we see that Grok is now...
01:30So we have to do more and more and more to X services, so to really look that how there is...
01:35We hope that the risks are taking care there.
01:36And also...
01:37We saw also that there...
01:40was certain illegal content
01:41that Crocs was pushing. We know that
01:43now
01:45the future has been changed, but we are also now analysing about the other risks.
01:50Really, related to Croc.
01:51And we saw that Croc AI
01:53generated about three million
01:55sexualised images in just two weeks.
01:57That's according to research.
01:59Can you keep...
02:00How do you keep up with this, though?
02:01It came very late, like your...
02:03We have very clear obligations.
02:05For the online service providers that they have to all the time mitigate...
02:10the risks that they are posing, especially now when more and more AI is also integrated.
02:15to online services. More and more AI is also running the recommender system.
02:20of the online services. So this is certain obligation now for the online platform.
02:25to really look that they are having practices in place and illegal content, for example.
02:30it's not spread online.
02:31And has X responded? Because we all know how Elon Musk feels about...
02:35the European Union.
02:36Yes, they have been in dialogue with the commission services. We already sent it...
02:40earlier for them requests for information about this topic, that how they have been assessing the risks.
02:45And also we made before Christmas already the decisions that they have to now...
02:50contain all the documents related to Croc and X. And now we opened also...
02:55to formal proceedings. So they have been in dialogue with our services all these months.
02:59Okay.
03:00And how are you making sure that we can get it right here in the EU?
03:03That we can make sure that we have smart...
03:05regulation when it comes to AI, but that we can also thrive.
03:08That is exactly what we...
03:10we are seeking in our regulation that we want to have right balance.
03:14They're boosting innovation...
03:15but at the same time it's also important to be aware of risks.
03:18And when it comes to new technology...
03:20which is also like to AI. So it's very important also that the developers...
03:24that they...
03:25are also taking care of their responsibility here. And we have already AI...
03:30in fact, which is covering also the generative AI part. And there are 26...
03:35AI developers, they were also signing code of practice together with us. So it means that...
03:40they have to take care of the security, safety of the systems and also they have to be...
03:45transparent, they have to respect copyrights. So I see that we have good balance in the European Union.
03:50when it comes to digital regulation.
03:52And how are you handling the pressure though coming from the US administration?
03:55trying to back you in a corner, trying to get you to kill the regulation?
03:59We know that...
04:00these digital rules are very important for the Europeans because we want to make sure that...
04:05citizens can trust the technologies. We want to be sure that our digital environment...
04:10it's fair, transparent, democratic and safe.
04:15But you're seen as a rule maker. You were just in Davos last week. Everyone looking at you as the regulator, not the innovator.
04:20but there was good news on the 28th regime, right? To make it easier for start-ups here in the EU.
04:25In the same time, when we have certain digital rules, we want to make Europe...
04:30faster and easier for the businesses and we are doing that. So we are simplifying the...
04:35processes and rules. We are creating better single market. We are boosting the capital market.
04:40to have also access to finance for the start-ups. So we are working on that and we see that...
04:45that Europe is having everything that is needed to be competitive.
04:48Okay.
04:50Thank you so much for coming in to us here at Europe Today and being our guest.
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