{"id":476306,"date":"2026-02-18T18:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/476306\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T18:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:41:09","slug":"eu-needs-to-abandon-ai-doomerism-white-house-official-says-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/476306\/","title":{"rendered":"EU needs to abandon AI \u2018doomerism,\u2019 White House official says \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The EU AI Act, which I have ranted about before this job, during this job, maybe after this job &#8230; it&#8217;s not really conducive to an entrepreneur who wants to build basic technology,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>One example, Krishnan said, was Peter Steinberger, the Austrian coder behind the personal AI assistant platform OpenClaw who is moving to the U.S. to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sama\/status\/2023150230905159801?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">join<\/a> OpenAI.<\/p>\n<p>Krishnan was much more positive about India&#8217;s regulatory approach, which he praised as &#8220;pro-innovation.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>World leaders, including EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen and French President Emmanuel Macron, will gather on Thursday in New Delhi. A <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/news\/213145\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">draft of the declaration<\/a> of the summit, seen by POLITICO, didn&#8217;t include the word safety.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since the first AI Summit in the United Kingdom in 2023, the series of annual summits <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/how-the-global-effort-to-keep-ai-safe-went-off-the-rails\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has gradually shifted <\/a>from discussions on AI governance to business and investment deals between the industry and governments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;The EU AI Act, which I have ranted about before this job, during this job, maybe after this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,5084,181,507,10376,11190,7260,2344,4530,35199,58623,54969,10497,514,8978,2785,74,123971,1049,21],"class_list":{"0":"post-476306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-algorithms","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-big-data","13":"tag-data-protection","14":"tag-governance","15":"tag-india","16":"tag-innovation","17":"tag-intelligence","18":"tag-internet-governance","19":"tag-internet-search","20":"tag-platforms","21":"tag-privacy","22":"tag-regulatory","23":"tag-safety","24":"tag-technology","25":"tag-tony-blair","26":"tag-united-kingdom","27":"tag-united-states"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}