{"id":22039,"date":"2026-02-19T09:37:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T08:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/macron-defends-eu-ai-rules-and-vows-crackdown-on-child-digital-abuse\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T09:37:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T08:37:19","slug":"macron-defends-eu-ai-rules-and-vows-crackdown-on-child-digital-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/macron-defends-eu-ai-rules-and-vows-crackdown-on-child-digital-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Macron defends EU AI rules and vows crackdown on child \u2018digital abuse\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French president rejects US criticism as Ant\u00f3nio Guterres and Narendra Modi warn on child safety and AI monopolies<\/p>\n<p>Emmanuel Macron has hit back at US criticism of Europe\u2019s efforts to regulate AI, vowing to protect children from \u201cdigital abuse\u201d during France\u2019s presidency of the G7.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the AI Impact summit in Delhi, the French president called for tougher safeguards after global outrage over Elon Musk\u2019s Grok chatbot being used to generate tens of thousands of sexualised images of children, and amid mounting concern about the concentration of AI power in a handful of companies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/feb\/19\/emmanuel-macron-eu-ai-rules-child-safety-digital-abuse\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c802796e307089d1fe21a91866a627bbf559b534\/1051_276_2654_2124\/master\/2654.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=bec107ff108598ff0ca4b0033f7c747d\" title=\"Macron defends EU AI rules and vows crackdown on child \u2018digital abuse\u2019\" \/>French president rejects US criticism as Ant\u00f3nio Guterres and Narendra Modi warn on child safety and AI monopolies<br \/>\nEmmanuel Macron has hit back at US criticism of Europe\u2019s efforts to regulate AI, vowing to protect children from \u201cdigital abuse\u201d during France\u2019s presidency of the G7.<br \/>\nSpeaking at the AI Impact summit in Delhi, the French president called for tougher safeguards after global outrage over Elon Musk\u2019s Grok chatbot being used to generate tens of thousands of sexualised images of children, and amid mounting concern about the concentration of AI power in a handful of companies. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French president rejects US criticism as Ant\u00f3nio Guterres and Narendra Modi warn on child safety and AI monopolies Emmanuel Macron has hit back at US criticism of Europe\u2019s efforts to regulate AI, vowing to protect children from \u201cdigital abuse\u201d during France\u2019s presidency of the G7. Speaking at the AI Impact summit in Delhi, the French &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/macron-defends-eu-ai-rules-and-vows-crackdown-on-child-digital-abuse\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Macron defends EU AI rules and vows crackdown on child \u2018digital abuse\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22039"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}