00:00Good morning. Great 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, 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.
00:55The experts 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 service providers, they have to...
01:25Assess and mitigate the systematic risks, they are posing and now we see that Grok is now included...
01:30More and more and more to X services, so to really look that how there is...
01:35And also we saw also that there...
01:40There was certain illegal content that Grok was pushing, we know that now...
01:45The future has been changed, but we are also now analyzing about the other risks.
01:50And we saw that Grok AI generated about three...
01:55A million sexualized images in just two weeks, that'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?
02:32Because we all know how Elon Musk feels about...
02:35The European Union.
02:36Yes, they have been in dialogue with the commission services.
02:39We already sent it...
02:40As I mentioned earlier, for them requests for information about this topic.
02:43That how they have been assessing the risks.
02:45And also we made before Christmas already the decisions that they have to now...
02:50To obtain all the documents related to Croc and X.
02:53And now we opened also...
02:55To formal proceedings.
02:56So 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.
03:12That 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.
03:21So it's very important also that the developers...
03:24That they...
03:25Are also taking care of their responsibility here.
03:27And we have already AI...
03:30In fact, which is covering also the generative AI part.
03:33And there are 26...
03:35AI developers, they were also signing code of practice together with us.
03:39So it means that...
03:40They have to take care of the security, safety of the systems.
03:44And also they have to be...
03:45Transparent.
03:46They have to respect copyrights.
03:47So 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...
03:54Coming from the US administration...
03:55Trying to back you in a corner.
03:57Trying to get you to kill the regulation.
03:59We know that...
04:00These digital rules are very important for the Europeans.
04:03Because we want to make sure...
04:04That our...
04:05Citizens can trust to technologies.
04:07We want to be sure that...
04:08Our digital environment...
04:10It's a fair, transparent, democratic and safe.
04:15But you're seen as a rule maker.
04:16You were just in Davos last week.
04:18Everyone looking at you as the regulator, not the innovator.
04:20But there was good news on the 28th regime, right?
04:23To make it easier for startups here in the EU.
04:25In the same time, when we have certain digital rules...
04:28We want to make Europe...
04:30Faster and easier for the businesses.
04:32And we are doing that.
04:33So we are simplifying the...
04:35Processes and rules.
04:36We are creating better single market.
04:38We are boosting the capital market.
04:40To have also access to finance for the startups.
04:43So we are working on that.
04:44And we see that...
04:45That Europe is having everything...
04:46What is needed to be competitive.
04:48Okay.
04:49Hannah Verkunen.
04:50Vice President...
04:50Vice President of the European Commission.
04:51Thank you so much for coming in to us here at Europe Today.
04:53And being our guest.
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