Spanish PM Sanchez says AI industry cannot be self-regulated

Artificial intelligence cannot be self-regulated by those who control the technology, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Monday.

Governments worldwide are racing to set rules for AI as concerns grow over privacy, discrimination, job losses, misinformation and the concentration of computing power among a handful of tech giants.

Speaking at an event on AI regulation in Madrid, Sanchez, an outspoken critic of “tech oligarchs”, said his government would reinforce its defensive cybersecurity measures to respond to what he described as “aggressive” frontier AI models.