EU Privacy Watchdog Probes Google’s AI Model

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission has concerns with Google’s Pathways Language Model 2.
EU Privacy Watchdog Probes Google’s AI Model
The Google logo at the VivaTech show in Paris on June 15, 2023. The Canadian Press/AP, Michel Euler
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The EU’s privacy watchdog is investigating how Google is using personal data in the development of one of its artificial intelligence models.

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC)—the bloc’s regulatory body for companies headquartered in Ireland—announced on Sept. 12. that it was investigating compliance with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) rules by Google’s Pathways Language Model 2, also known as PaLM2.