ALT Logo of Corporate Europe Observatory at the top left corner, at the bottom left corner there is the URL www.corporateeurope.org, at the bottom right one the logos of social media networks instagram, Facebook, mastodon, linkedin and bluesky. Image with a green background, and in black is writter the text: Bye X Corporate Europe Observatory joins the x-odus

ALT Logo of Corporate Europe Observatory at the top left corner, at the bottom left corner there is the URL www.corporateeurope.org and at the bottom right one the logos of social media networks instagram, Facebook, mastodon and bluesky. The word “Report” is highlighted and then followed by the bigger words: “Chemical reaction”, followed by the subtitle, in smaller font: “Inside the corporate fight against the EU’s PFAS restriction” At the right of the words is an infinity mathematical sign, an Erlenmeyer flask and the representation of PFAS molecules. The background of the image is green.

ALT Logo of Corporate Europe Observatory at the top left corner. Photo of people crossing a street at a zebra crossing, and everyone had their face out of focus and surrounded by a light blue rectangle, each of which has a caption which is a coded number. Next to the photo there is the following text: New Article Bias baked in How Big Tech sets its own AI standards

ALT Logo of Corporate Europe Observatory at the top right corner. Title: Industry’s stronghold over international AI standards at ISO/IEC An infographic with a yellow centre with the words: Chair Wael William Diab, Futurewei (Huawei), which points to 5 other circles below it. Those circles say: Working Group 1 on foundational standards. Convener: Paul Cotton, consultant, previously 17 years at Microsoft Working Group 2 on data. Convener: David Boyd, Parsons corporation Working Group 3 on trustworthiness. Convener: David Filip, Huawei Working Group 4 on use cases. Convener: Fumihiro Maruyama, Fujitsu Working Group 5 on computational approaches. Convener: Ning Sun, Nankai University, China International standards developed by WG1: Project editor of ISO/IEC 42001 – Marta Janczarski – Microsoft Project editor of ISO/IEC 42005 – Peter Deussen – Microsoft Project editor of ISO/IEC 42006 – Susanne Kuch – DAKKS Project editor of ISO/IEC 42102 – Taras Holoyad – Federal Network Agency Project edito

ALT Logo of Corporate Europe Observatory at the bottom right corner. Title: Big Tech’s playbook to influence AI standards Quote: “Standardisation is market-driven, profit-led, where industry develops technical specifications. It is a public-private partnership.” Natalia Giorgi of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) The image of a computer, from which several arrows are coming out, pointing towards: Big Tech tactic 1: rack up the numbers by secretively stuffing working groups with consultants Big Tech tactic 2: make it difficult for civil society to participate Big Tech tactic 3: influence the national delegations Big Tech tactic 4: delay and go global Big Tech tactic 5: pre-empt standards through the voluntary Code of Practice on General-Purpose AI

ALT Title: Corporate rulemaking How companies dominate AI standard-setting in CEN-CENELEC Pie chart with the following info: Corporate 38% Consultant 17% Academia / think tank 16% Government/public agency 13% Civil society 9% Standards body 7% Other 1% Big Tech participation in CEN-CENELEC: Microsoft (4), Amazon (2), Huawei (4), IBM (4), Google (1), Intel (1) Nearly 25 percent of experts in CEN-CENELEC on AI standard-setting work for US and Chinese tech companies Logo of Corporate Europe Observatory at the bottom left corner.

ALT Logo of Corporate Europe Observatory at the top left corner. Title: How corporate interests shape AI rules through national standard-setting associations Three pie charts. The one at the left has as a title France and the numbers showing are: Composition of the AFNOR mirror committee on AI SME 30% Large enterprise/multinational 26% Public/government 19% Academia/research 19% Civil society 4% Standardisation 3% The pie chart at the centre has as a title United Kingdom and the numbers showing are: Large enterprise/multinational 25% Academia/research 20% Public/government 18% SME 17% Trade organisation 9% Standardisation 4% Civil society 2% The pie chart at the left has as a title The Netherlands and the numbers showing are: SME 33% Large enterprise/multinational 25% Public/government 23% Academia/research 6% Civil society 6% Standardisation 2%