AI company criticizes the EU
The AI Act is “a catastrophe for Europe”
November 1, 2023, 11:08 a.m
Carsten Kraus is convinced: If companies want to increase their productivity, there is no way around artificial intelligence. But the EU’s AI Act could become a brake, especially for small and medium-sized companies, explains the AI entrepreneur at “So techt Deutschland”.
Carsten Kraus is one of those people who have been tinkering since they were young. And quite successfully: Among the inventions of the managing director of Casablanca.AI includes a novel core structure for programming languages that has been implemented in 700,000 computers.
Carsten Kraus estimates that the EU AI Act will cost 20 percent productivity.
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Today, Kraus holds various patents and is working on a different kind of video software. At the moment, most people look past each other when they have conversations with business partners or colleagues in programs like Zoom, Teams or Webex. With Casablanca, Kraus wants to change that: artificial intelligence ensures that the other person’s eyes look directly at you, even though you are looking somewhere else.
“The secret services always have access rights”
When developing the products, Kraus has clear rules: Everyone is allowed to use programs like ChatGPT without restrictions, except researchers. The entrepreneur wants to prevent sensitive business secrets and details about development processes from ending up on Open AI’s servers. “Everything that is said in chats is transmitted to the USA. And theoretically, the secret services always have access rights to everything that runs on American servers,” explains Kraus, explaining his caution.
Many small and medium-sized companies in Europe will have to be more careful in the future if the EU’s AI Act is implemented as currently planned: In any case, the requirements will be stricter for certain AI applications – Kraus is convinced of this development.
The consequence: Large companies such as Microsoft, Amazon and Google will come to terms with this and issue clear guidelines to their employees. “The little ones will simply forbid it because they are afraid,” says Kraus. “I think this is a catastrophe for Europe. I estimate that we are missing out on 20 percent productivity.”
Carsten Kraus explains in the new episode of “So techt Deutschland” what this could actually mean economically for Germany and Europe.
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