Politico wants us to worry that foreign companies may influence European #policy and #legislation on AI. The far greater issue they ignore is that, by handing the pen to ETSI, their attitude that including royalty-required patents into #standards is desirable will be reflected in European law, locking out open source and thus also citizen scrutiny of code.

Also horrifyingly tolerated by @EU_Commission - I'll be speaking about this at #OSXP and #SFSCon this week.

https://www.politico.eu/article/harmful-ai-rules-european-union-corporate-influence/