The competitive landscape among AI apps in China is fierce. Companies have been dumping money into the market to try to win customers and show them how AI is useful in everyday life, in particular, for buying stuff.
Uber had a substantial driverless car project more than a decade ago. That's right. It launched in early 2015 when Travis Kalanick was CEO. At the time, Uber was a real contender, racing against Waymo and Tesla. Then, disaster struck. While testing in Arizona in 2018, an Uber driverless car, with a safety driver behind the wheel, hit and killed a pedestrian.
"This is a big, sophisticated technology, and we want to get it right. We need specific obligations to capture some of the most impactful or potentially harmful models under the AI Act."
