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The article points out that Brussels are alright making regulations around artificial intelligence etc:

"Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is in Brussels lobbying the European Union’s regulators as they form new laws to govern artificial intelligence, content moderation and more"

Does anyone know what they are thinking of doing in this regard? And what problems they are attempting to solve?

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One example is facial recognition. From what I gather, there is a growing consensus that unrestrained facial recognition might be either in conflict, or pose a potential threat to certain legal rights of European citizens.

In Germany, for example, privacy-threatening issues are covered by a body of norms called "Persönlichkeitsrecht". Which are based constitutionally on Articles 1 and 2 of the German constitution (Grundgesetz) - the Right to Human Dignity and the Right to Personal Fulfillment/Development.

Allowing anyone storing and sharing facial recognition data willy-nilly might endanger those rights and hence might be a need for regulation.

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