The European Union and the United States have announced that they will work on a common "code of conduct" on artificial intelligence.

A first draft for shared standards should be presented in the coming weeks. The announcement was made by the Vice President of the EU Commission, Margrethe Vestager, and the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, at a press conference at the end of the EU-US Council on trade and tech in Sweden.

"In the coming weeks, we will present a plan," said the European Commissioner for Competition. These will be "voluntary codes of conduct that will be open to all like-minded countries," the US minister said, "at a time when Westerners fear letting China lead the way."

The rules will anticipate the entry into force of the Ai Act, the EU regulation still under negotiation.