The Commission’s Artificial Intelligence Office enforces this monitoring, and has contracted leading independent AI researchers, such as those from METR, an independent non-profit research organization based in California, to carry out the regulatory oversight.
Indeed, it was METR that was called in by OpenAI researchers to investigate after a much-discussed July hack of AI company Hugging Face, when OpenAI-powered agents went rogue.
One sign that Brussels wants to focus on enforcing the current law was the confirmation Thursday that European Parliament lawmakers would raise the AI extinction warning for discussion on Sept. 30, as part of a regular enforcement check-in with the European Commission.
They urged the Commission to increase the pressure on the companies and to enforce the law.
“This is exactly why the AI Act created obligations for systemic-risk models. Europe must now enforce them fully,” said Italian Social-Democrat Brando Benifei, the Parliament’s other lead of the group in charge of monitoring AI.
Domyn’s Sharka said that von der Leyen should use her State of the Union speech on Wednesday to lay out a vision for how Europe can compete in the AI development race without sacrificing its leadership in regulating the powerful technology.
“One of the points where Europe is failing is that it does things in the right way, but we’re not explaining them enough,” Sharka said. “This is not about slowing down innovation; this is about building actually even faster, but with a safe approach.”