News Summary

• EU Commission president Ursula Von der Leyen agreed to the AI industry’s call for a slowdown.
• She based her case on the companies’ own words.
• “The CEOs of the most advanced companies have told us that it is time to slow down with regard to self-recursive models,” she said to the MEPs.
• She said that the EU would work with “like-minded partners such as Canada, the UK and others” on model evaluation, verification, early warning, and AI security.