Meta公司表示不会签署欧盟关于通用人工智能（GPAI）的行为准则，认为该准则将法律不确定性引入，并超出AI法案的范畴，可能阻碍欧洲前沿AI模型的开发和部署。该准则是一套自愿性指导方针，旨在帮助企业在AI法案正式生效前遵循相关规定。尽管准则本身不具法律强制性，但签署者可获较低行政负担和更高的法律确定性。OpenAI已表示有意签署。欧盟AI法案将于8月2日生效，要求GPAI提供商对其模型进行透明度披露，并遵守版权法，违者最高将被处以年销售额7%的罚款。Meta的立场与美国政府移除技术监管障碍的态度一致，并与此前超过45家公司呼吁推迟AI法案实施的立场相呼应。

🔹 Meta公司明确表示拒绝签署欧盟发布的通用人工智能（GPAI）行为准则，其全球事务主管Joel Kaplan指出，该准则引入了法律不确定性，并且其措施超出了AI法案的范围，Meta认为欧洲在AI发展方向上“走错了路”。

🔸 该行为准则是欧盟为帮助企业在AI法案生效前遵循相关规定而制定的自愿性指导方针，旨在为签署者提供“减少行政负担和增加法律确定性”的优势，而OpenAI已表达了签署意向。

🔹 欧盟AI法案将于8月2日生效，要求GPAI提供商对其模型训练和安全风险保持透明，并遵守欧盟及各成员国的版权法。违规企业可能面临高达年销售额7%的罚款，这使得企业对法规的遵从显得尤为重要。

🔸 Meta的担忧在于，欧盟的AI监管框架可能会扼杀前沿模型的开发和部署，削弱遵守法规的欧洲企业的竞争力。这一担忧与此前包括空中客车、梅赛德斯-奔驰等45家公司和组织签署的联名信相呼应，信中呼吁将AI法案的实施推迟两年，以解决合规方面的不确定性。

🔹 Meta拒绝签署准则的举动，与其在欧盟监管环境中屡遭巨额罚款的经历以及与美国政府在科技监管上放松姿态的立场相符，凸显了其对欧盟严格AI监管政策的保留态度。

Meta says it won’t sign the European Union’s artificial intelligence code of practice agreement, warning that “Europe is heading down the wrong path on AI.” The code published by the EU on July 10th is a voluntary set of guidelines to help companies follow the AI Act’s rules around general-purpose AI before they come into effect in a few weeks.

“We have carefully reviewed the European Commission’s Code of Practice for general-purpose AI (GPAI) models and Meta won’t be signing it,” Meta’s global affairs chief, Joel Kaplan, said via a statement on LinkedIn. “This Code introduces a number of legal uncertainties for model developers, as well as measures which go far beyond the scope of the AI Act.”

While the code of practice itself isn’t legally enforced, the EU says that general-purpose AI model providers who sign it will benefit from a “reduced administrative burden and increased legal certainty,” compared to providers that may otherwise be subject to more regulatory scrutiny. OpenAI announced its intention to sign the agreement on July 11th.

This comes ahead of AI Act rules coming into force on August 2nd that require general-purpose AI providers to be transparent about training and security risks for their models, and abide by EU and national copyright laws. The EU can fine companies that violate the AI Act up to seven percent of their annual sales.

Kaplan says that Meta is concerned that the EU’s landmark AI rulebook will act to throttle frontier model development and deployment in Europe, stunting European companies that comply with the bloc’s regulations. These concerns echo those raised in a letter signed by more than 45 companies and organizations last month, including Airbus, Mercedes-Benz, Philips, and ASML, that urged the EU to postpone the implementation of its landmark AI Act regulation for two years to address uncertainty around compliance.

The EU’s efforts to tighten AI regulations stand in contrast to attitudes in the US, where the Trump administration is actively removing such roadblocks. Meta’s refusal to sign the EU’s code isn’t entirely surprising, given that the scorned company has been slapped with billions in fines under the EU’s regulatory landscape, and has aligned itself with the Trump administration’s lax views around tech regulations.