Nick Clegg calls the EU AI Act a 'dog's dinner' built before ChatGPT

Former Meta global affairs president Nick Clegg said at HumanX in Amsterdam that the EU AI Act was drafted before ChatGPT and retrofitted for generative AI. He argued self-regulation by AI labs won't work and said backlash against AI is already visible in cancelled US data center projects.

• Clegg: the EU AI Act was written before ChatGPT and patched on the fly
• Self-regulation by AI labs 'ain't going to happen', baseline standards needed
• He sees an 'almost pitchfork rebellion' against AI and cancelled US data centers
• Europe should bet on apps and world models, not copy the US LLM stack