Meta Declines to Sign Code of Practice on AI in the EU
Meta will not be signing the European Union’s voluntary code of practice connected to the upcoming AI Act. This announcement comes just weeks before the EU’s new rules for general-purpose AI systems are set to come into force. Joel Kaplan, Meta’s head of global affairs, announced the move in a LinkedIn post, stating that the company will not endorse the EU’s Code of Practice for general-purpose AI (GPAI) models. He argued that the code brings with it unclear legal demands for developers and goes beyond what the actual AI Act requires. According to Kaplan, “Europe is heading in the wrong…