EC Opens Office to Guide New AI Law
With the EU AI Act set to become law soon (see 2405210001), the European Commission launched an internal AI Office expected to play a major role in implementing the measure. The office includes a regulation and compliance unit to ensure…
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the act is uniformly enforced across the EU; a unit on AI safety to identify systemic risks of very capable general-purpose models and possible mitigation measures; an AI for societal good unit to deal with international engagement on issues such as weather modeling and cancer diagnoses; and a unit for AI innovation and policy coordination to oversee the EU's AI strategy and AI take-up. The office will be led by an AI Office head under the guidance of a scientific and an international affairs advisor. The organizational changes become effective on June 16; the act itself is expected to take effect in July, after which businesses have two years to comply.