Spain
1 item across 1 edition. First seen Mon 21 Sep, last seen Mon 21 Sep.
- Reuters reports: "Artificial intelligence cannot be self-regulated by those who control the technology, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Monday," speaking at an event on AI regulation in Madrid.
- Sánchez said his government would reinforce its defensive cybersecurity measures to respond to what he described as "aggressive" frontier AI models, and set out a 12-month roadmap that includes a proposed AI gigafactory and new models developed with the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre for climate, health and energy uses.
- On data centres, Sánchez said they must "meet high environmental and energy standards while protecting data autonomy and benefiting local communities", and said: "We must develop this technology not behind citizens' backs ... but in a way that people see it as an opportunity rather than a tool for depleting their scarce resources."
- The La Moncloa page confirms the event as "IA360: Plan para un despliegue responsable de la IA", closed by Sánchez with First Vice-President Carlos Cuerpo opening. It is an event listing and carries no plan details; the substance above is from the Reuters wire copy. Reuters reports the remarks followed calls from US AI lab leaders to slow development.