EU tech chief sees AI code of conduct 'within weeks'

Intel, which employs 5,000 people in Ireland, predicts it will tap boom for AI chips

Margrethe Vestager, a vice president of the European Commission, said the US and the EU should push a voluntary code of conduct on AI to provide safeguards while new laws are being developed.

EU technology chief Margrethe Vestager has said she believed a draft code of conduct on artificial intelligence (AI) could be drawn up within weeks, allowing industry to commit to a final proposal "very, very soon".

Policymakers and many in industry have expressed concern about AI, and particularly content-creating generative AI such as ChatGPT, with some equating it to the risks posed by pandemics and nuclear war.