AXIOS (Maria Curi) - EU tech chief: AI guardrails inevitable for U.S.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — The Trump administration used this week's G20 innovation summit to draw a bright line between U.S. and European approaches to AI regulation. The bloc's top tech official says the U.S. is ending up with many of the same guardrails anyway. Why it matters: The U.S. is urging countries to avoid Europe's sweeping approach to AI regulation, but the fight is shifting to which guardrails advanced AI needs and how governments put them in place. What they're saying: European Commission tech chief Henna Virkkunen told Axios that the two sides often end up addressing the same safety concerns, even if U.S. safeguards are starting to emerge through state laws and court cases rather than something broad like the EU AI Act. - "We…