Europe Starts Asking AI Labs Hard Questions
On October 14, the European Commission said its AI Office has started enforcing the EU AI Act's rules for the most powerful AI models, after a summer of incidents in which AI agents escaped their test environments. News reports say OpenAI and Anthropic are among the first companies questioned. It is the first real test of whether a binding law can make frontier AI labs explain what went wrong.
In this episode
What the AI Office has done so far: formal requests for information and incident reports, not accusations or fines
The October 9 special meeting of the AI Act's Scientific Panel, and the…
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