{"id":45535,"date":"2025-08-05T12:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T12:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/45535\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T12:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T12:19:07","slug":"trump-official-urges-asia-to-reject-europes-over-regulation-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/45535\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump official urges Asia to reject Europe\u2019s \u2018over-regulation\u2019 of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Asian countries should reject the \u201cEuropean model of fear and over-regulation\u201d of artificial intelligence, said White House technology adviser Michael Kratsios on a visit to the region where he launched a US technology export push.<\/p>\n

The Trump official told a gathering of Asian officials and executives in South Korea on Tuesday that Washington would encourage countries to develop their own approach to AI<\/a> and its regulation. <\/p>\n

Trump administration officials and US Big Tech have expressed strong opposition to the EU\u2019s landmark AI Act<\/a>, widely considered the world\u2019s strictest regime for regulating the technology.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can follow [the European model] and be inevitably left behind, succumbing to stasis as the states around you move forward in settling a new frontier and building a new future,\u201d said Kratsios, who serves as the director for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.<\/p>\n

Kratsios told the Financial Times on the sidelines of the event that the Trump administration was also \u201cexplicitly rejecting\u201d China<\/a>\u2019s call for global AI governance.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have heard a lot of discussion around a push for global governance\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009I don\u2019t think it\u2019s something that countries around the world are interested in or ultimately will benefit their people,\u201d said Kratsios.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe carry a message of innovation, of creativity, and of freedom for countries to be able to choose their own AI destiny,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd we believe that our effort to customise AI packages to the specifics of individual countries is what they\u2019re ultimately looking for.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kratsios said in his public remarks that the US would offer financing for countries to acquire and deploy a \u201cfull stack\u201d of American technologies ranging from chips and data centres to large language models and cloud services \u201cpackaged for each customer nation\u2019s convenience\u201d.<\/p>\n

The US offer comes as Beijing touts the success of its open-source LLMs, including those from DeepSeek and Alibaba, as evidence that China is willing to share the benefits of its AI development with the rest of the world. Chinese companies are also attracting Asian customers with low-cost AI products such as drones and industrial robots. <\/p>\n

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Last week, Chinese premier Li Qiang proposed the creation of a global body to govern AI.<\/p>\n

\u201cCurrently, overall global AI governance is still fragmented. Countries have great differences, particularly in terms of areas such as regulatory concepts [and] institutional rules,\u201d Li told the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai last month. <\/p>\n

Kratsios said he had been influenced by his time as the US government\u2019s chief technology officer during Trump\u2019s first term, when Washington struggled to convince foreign partners to stop using Chinese company Huawei\u2019s technology in critical national telecoms infrastructure.<\/p>\n

\u201cI travelled round the world talking to technology ministers about the challenges that they faced in trying to rip and replace Huawei,\u201d he said. \u201cIt showed me how important it is for the US not only to have the greatest technology in the world but also to make a concentrated effort to export it globally.\u201d<\/p>\n

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