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  Neil Chilson

  AI policy head, Abundance Institute

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  votes For and says:

  Europe can't [...] to AI innovation leadership. If the EU is serious about AI innovation, it should repeal the AI Act [...]. It should also review GDPR [...]. Unverified source (2025)

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  Claudia Nemat

  Deutsche Telekom tech & innovation head

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  AI regulation is German fear codified into law. Unverified source (2025)

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  Andrew McAfee

  MIT scientist and author

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  votes For and says:

  You want to be world champions of regulation, but that doesn’t go hand in hand with innovation. Unverified source (2025)

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  Bill Anderson

  Bayer CEO

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  We should ask the top 10 AI leaders in Europe to rewrite it. Then Europe would finally enter the 21st century. Unverified source (2025)

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  Christine Anderson

  Member of European Parliament (Germany)

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  votes For and says:

  Mr President, five years ago, the Commission promised a Europe fit for the digital age. We were to have world‑class chips, sovereign clouds and 10 000 green data centres humming in harmony. The Chips Act, the Data Act, the AI Act: the Commission seem... more Unverified source (2025)

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  Pieter Garicano

  Economist; Substack writer

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  votes For and says:

  The regulation needs repealing. [...] The delay provides Europe with an opportunity to nullify the damage the Act can do before it takes force. There are smaller escape clauses: the commission has been given the power to amend Annex III, which lists... more Unverified source (2024)

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  Paul Berg

  Co-founder and CEO Sablier

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  Trump and Musk are steering the US toward significant economic and technological growth, and potentially making humanity a multiplanetary species. Meanwhile in the EU, we're busy clicking on cookie banners. The courage and determination of the US a... more Unverified source

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  EDRi (European Digital Rights)

  European Digital Rights NGO

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  Digital Omnibus proposals [...] the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act. This step risks dismantling [...]. The Digital Omnibus on AI tears the AI Act apart. Unverified source (2025)

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  Ursula Pachl

  BEUC deputy director general

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  Consumers are worried about the risks of AI. Yet national governments failed to improve protection [...]. If not, this legislation could end up being a disillusion [...]. Unverified source (2022)

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  BEUC (The European Consumer Organisation)

  European consumer organisation

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  votes Against and says:

  the AI Act, a vital piece of legislation to regulate AI. National governments have left too many important issues unaddressed. Consumers are at risk. Unverified source (2022)

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  FIfF e.V.

  German digital rights NGO

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  votes Against and says:

  Stop attempts to reopen the AI Act. Renew a rights-based digital order. Defend the laws that protect us. Unverified source (2025)

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  European Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ECNL)

  Civil-society legal research organisation

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  votes Against and says:

  Whilst the final AI Act text is far from perfect, [...] a total rejection would also pose significant risks for the future of AI regulation. Unverified source (2024)

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  Kim Van Sparrentak

  Dutch Member of the European Parliament

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  votes Against and says:

  Because don't be fooled: the people who will benefit from slashing AI or privacy rules are big tech, and not your promising, innovative EU companies. Unverified source (2025)

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  Michał Wawrykiewicz

  Member of European Parliament (Poland)

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  votes Against and says:

  Madam President, Madam Vice-President, dear colleagues, we are discussing today the issue of digital sovereignty. What does that mean, actually? It means two things. First, reducing dependence on non-EU technologies, such as iCloud data, AI and chips... more Unverified source (2025)

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  Kosma Złotowski

  Member of European Parliament (Poland)

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  votes Against and says:

  Technology will always move faster than we can control it. However, we need to create a legal framework for the development of AI that ensures consumer safety and a high level of protection of human rights, and which outlines a framework of accountab... more Unverified source (2023)

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  Juan Fernando López Aguilar

  Member of European Parliament (Spain)

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  votes Against and says:

  Madam President, Commissioner Virkkunen, the Digital Agenda for Europe, the Digital Markets Act, the Digital Services Act and the Artificial Intelligence Act were approved by this European Parliament not only to subject digital services and major tec... more Unverified source (2025)

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  Henna Virkkunen

  EU Executive Vice-President for Tech

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  votes Against and says:

  With a directive, member states implement the rules in different ways. I favour more regulations to make sure we have one single market. We need to fully implement the AI Act before we propose new rules – in the last years the European Commission ha... more Unverified source (2025)

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  Sandra Kalniete

  Latvian Member of European Parliament

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  votes Against and says:

  The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) tools presents immense challenges in many fields, including the area of malign information manipulation. If so far we still are able to identify what is fake, AI will make creating disinformation ... more Unverified source (2023)

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  Karen Melchior

  Danish MEP, Renew Europe

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  votes Against and says:

  This week, Parliament endorsed the final Artificial Intelligence Act after over a year of difficult negotiations. As Renew’s negotiator in the Committee on Legal Affairs, I fought for fundamental rights and a better deal for open-source developers. W... more Unverified source (2024)

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  Cyrus Engerer

  Maltese Member of European Parliament

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  votes Against and says:

  With the power and benefits that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has brought along, also came great concerns and difficulties or grey areas in implementation. This is why I believe that this Act was indeed a landmark and a huge necessity for the Europea... more Unverified source (2023)

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  Roberts Zīle

  Latvian Member of European Parliament

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  votes Against and says:

  On Wednesday, I voted in support of a safer and more transparent artificial intelligence systems regulation. It wasn’t so long ago that the first touchscreen phones were brand new and made us adapt to the next generation of technological development.... more Unverified source (2023)

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  Valter Flego

  Croatian Member of European Parliament

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  votes Against and says:

  I vote for the discharge of the report on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on laying down harmonised rules on Artificial Intelligence (Artificial Intelligence Act) and amending certain Union Legislative Acts... more Unverified source (2023)

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  Kai Zenner

  Digital policy expert; head of office

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  votes Against and says:

  It’s good they’re taking a little more time, the whole process was too rushed. I’m sympathetic to the idea of adding another year to the timeline. But I don’t think we should rerun the debate over the AI Act. Reopening it, questioning whether or not... more Unverified source (2025)

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  Marianne Tordeux-Bitker

  France Digitale public affairs director

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  We’ve done the legislative work of finding a compromise everyone agrees with and businesses have integrated the new constraints for over a year now. This creates total uncertainty… It is completely contemptuous of businesses. [...] Are we really goi... more Unverified source (2025)

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  Laurent Daudet

  LightOn cofounder

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  It’s important to keep the essential principles that are the product of a compromise that has been incredibly difficult to reach. We shouldn’t undo the law under the pretence that we are leaning towards deregulation because of the Trump administratio... more Unverified source (2025)

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  Vieth-Ditlmann

  AlgorithmWatch nonprofit representative

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  votes Against and says:

  This is a clear push to dismantle digital rights and fundamental protections, as part of the EU's wider deregulation agenda. [...] There is no reason for delaying key elements like penalties for selling dangerous AI systems. On the contrary, laws li... more Unverified source (2025)

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  Anu Bradford

  Columbia Law School professor

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  votes Against and says:

  I have said this many times in many fora but it merits repeating, given how sticky the narrative about digital #regulation v #innovation is. In today's Financial Times: "Big Tech has successfully injected a narrative in Brussels that the two goals — ... more Unverified source (2025)

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  Cláudio Teixeira

  BEUC senior legal officer

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  votes Against and says:

  Re-opening hard-fought compromises now could undermine democratic processes, legal certainty, erode public trust, endanger consumers’ fundamental rights and risk aligning the EU with a wider push for digital deregulation that runs counter to consumer... more Unverified source (2025)

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  Blue Duangdjai Tiyavorabun

  Digital rights policy advisor

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  votes Against and says:

  The AI Act is a hard-won piece of legislation that took years to negotiate, and it is dangerous to roll back key legal protections. There is no innovation without people’s rights at the centre! Unverified source (2025)

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  Laura Lazaro Cabrera

  Equity and Data Programme director

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  votes Against and says:

  The AI Act is a landmark for Europe’s digital future. It shows that technological progress must respect rights and protect people. There’s no proof that its obligations place unfair burdens on businesses. Simplification should mean clarity, not dereg... more Unverified source (2025)

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  Alexandra Geese

  Member of European Parliament (Greens/EFA)

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  votes Against and says:

  Couldn‘t agree more Anu Bradford . The whole deregulation agenda is a) an attempt to scrap any limitation to AI big tech and b) an excuse for European governments and investors not to tackle the real issues. Unverified source (2025)

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  Brando Benifei

  Italian MEP, AI Act co-rapporteur

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  votes Against and says:

  We finally have the world’s first binding law on artificial intelligence, to reduce risks, create opportunities, combat discrimination, and bring transparency. Thanks to Parliament, unacceptable AI practices will be banned in Europe and the rights of... more Unverified source (2024)

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  European Commission

  EU's executive body

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  votes Against and says:

  On 1 August 2024, the European Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) enters into force. The Act aims to foster responsible artificial intelligence development and deployment in the EU. Proposed by the Commission in April 2021 and agreed by the Europe... more Unverified source (2024)

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  Thomas Regnier

  European Commission spokesperson

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  There is no stop the clock. There is no grace period. There is no pause. Unverified source (2025)

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  Yvo Volman

  EU Commission director for data

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  votes Against and says:

  There is not going to be an overall moratorium on the AI Act. That is not on the table. We are focussing on making the rules work in practice. Unverified source (2025)

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  Dragos Tudorache

  Romanian MEP; AI Act co-rapporteur

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  votes Against and says:

  The EU has delivered. We have linked the concept of artificial intelligence to the fundamental values that form the basis of our societies. However, much work lies ahead that goes beyond the AI Act itself. AI will push us to rethink the social contr... more Unverified source (2024)

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