New "special envoy" pick follows concerted industry push to roll back EU AI rules
The European Commission on Wednesday appointed Jim Hagemann Snabe in a newly created role described as a “Special Envoy for Industrial AI”.
Snabe is currently chairman of German industrial giant Siemens and sits on the boards of several other tech companies across the globe.
The move looks aimed at allaying industry concerns, including from Siemens itself, over EU rules on AI impeding their competitiveness – concerns that, just weeks ago, culminated in a partly successful push by EU lawmakers to cut key industrial sectors out of the EU’s AI Act.
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