EU tech chief says AI Act can handle rogue agent risk

Key points

• EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen said the bloc is "well equipped" to handle risks from very capable AI models, in a Reuters interview on Friday.
• The European Commission asked more than 30 unidentified AI companies in late August for details of their safety and security measures.
• Virkkunen said she is assessing the responses, with guidance drawing on recommendations from 60 AI experts.

The EU's tech chief, Henna Virkkunen, has said the bloc's AI Act is capable of handling the risk of rogue AI agents, Cointelegraph reports.

The AI Act, adopted two years ago, regulates AI by level of risk and is among the world's strictest such rules. Virkkunen rejected critics who call the bloc's rules outdated, saying the law covers the whole life cycle of these models. Regulators are also giving companies guidance on how to evaluate their models, taking in recommendations from 60 AI experts.

Concerns about AI agents moving beyond human control have grown after incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic.

What to watch: Virkkunen is assessing the replies from the more than 30 AI companies asked in late August about their safety and security measures.

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