Zuckerberg refuses to sign up to AI Code of Practice

META has declined to sign the European Commission’s new AI Code of Practice, escalating tensions with Brussels weeks before landmark regulation kicks in.

- By Saskia Koopman

The voluntary guidelines - designed to help tech giants prepare for the EU’s sweeping AI Act - were rejected outright by Meta’s global affairs chief Joel Kaplan, who warned they introduced “legal uncertainties” and “go far beyond the scope of the AI Act”.

Mr Kaplan said: “Europe is heading down the wrong path on AI. We share concerns raised by other businesses that this overreach will throttle the development and deployment of frontier AI models in Europe, and stunt European companies looking to build businesses on top of them.”