Spain’s Sánchez Says AI Can’t Police Itself, Sets 12-Month Roadmap With Proposed AI Gigafactory
Pedro Sánchez has a message for the companies building the world's most powerful AI: don't expect to mark your own homework. Speaking at an AI regulation event in Madrid on Monday, September 21, Spain's prime minister said the technology cannot be self-regulated by the people who control it, and laid out a 12-month plan to back that up. The Spain AI regulation roadmap combines tougher oversight with a proposed AI "gigafactory" and new models built with the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre. A gigafactory, for anyone new to the term, is a giant computing site filled with specialised chips, designed for training the most demanding AI systems.
A case against letting AI companies police themselves
Sánchez's reasoning was simple. Voluntary self-policing has failed before, he argued, and the...