ADADPichai spoke on the same day he was scheduled to meet the EU’s powerful competition regulator, Margrethe Vestager. Vestager has in previous years hit the Silicon Valley giant with multibillion-dollar fines for allegedly abusing its market dominance to choke off competition. After being reappointed for a second term last autumn with expanded powers over digital technology policies, Vestager has now set her sights on artificial intelligence, and is drawing up rules on its ethical use. Pichai’s comments suggest the company may be hoping to head off a broad-based crackdown by the EU on the technology. He’s then scheduled to head to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this week.

Source: Washington Post January 20, 2020 11:52 UTC