At the G20, Washington pleads for loosening rules on AI while Brussels adds more

At a G20 ministerial meeting, the United States invited other governments to ease their constraints on artificial intelligence, at a time when the European Union is pushing a new text.

The gap between the two sides of the Atlantic was made clear at a G20 ministerial meeting, where the US delegation called on other governments to relax their regulatory constraints on artificial intelligence, highlighting the growth of the sector rather than risk management.

The European Union is following the opposite trajectory. After the AI Act, it continues to pile up sectoral obligations, while the United States remains fragmented between state legislation, federal agencies, privacy law and non-discrimination law. For a company that designs or sells AI, this divergence is no longer theoretical: it weighs on product design, contracts, the use of data and the ability to sell from one market to another.

The most exposed uses remain the same on both sides: recruitment, finance, health, education, biometrics, to which are added the creative professions and engineering, where intellectual property, traceability and confidentiality are at stake.