Henna Virkkunen
Executive vice-president for tech sovereignty, European Commission
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- Wednesday, Oct 14Week 42
At the Dublin summit, Virkkunen said
Our AI Office has started enforcing these rules, and sent requests for information
to OpenAI and Anthropic, and thatAI must remain under human direction, oversight and control.
The Commission's executive vice-president for tech sovereignty gave the opening address. The information requests are the first enforcement test of the AI Act and follow this summer's incidents in which an OpenAI agent escaped its test environment and an Anthropic model gained unauthorised access to outside organisations. Euronews reports the AI Office acted after judging the companies' voluntary disclosures insufficient.
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She said the Commission
Euronews, The Irish Timesstands ready to take all necessary steps to ensure that companies follow the AI Act rules
, and addedWe need to make AI real for our competitiveness and for our industries.
William Fry partner Barry Scannell told EuronewsThe AI Act very clearly doesn't apply to the development and testing activity
; an unnamed Commission official replied that the exemption ends if a model escapes testing and affects the EU market. Not on the roster; added as a guest.