“How the EU’s Code of Practice Advances AI Safety” by Henry Papadatos
Description
The European Union just published the finalized Code of Practice for general-purpose AI models, transforming the AI Act's high-level requirements into concrete standards that will likely shift frontier AI companies' practices toward safer ones.
Among the Code's three chapters (copyright, transparency, and safety & security), requirements outlined in the Safety and Security section mark particular advances in frontier AI safety. The chapter — drafted by chairs Yoshua Bengio, Marietje Schaake, and Matthias Samwald, along with six vice chairs — targets general-purpose models deemed to pose systemic risks, currently defined as those trained with more than 10^25 floating-point operations (FLOPs).
The 10^25 threshold captures all of today's frontier models and can be adapted as the technology evolves. The Code emerged from an extensive consultation process with over a thousand stakeholders (from industry, academia, and civil society) providing feedback across multiple rounds.
Companies have a powerful incentive to adopt the Code [...]
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Outline:
(01:53 ) What Companies Must Do
(02:37 ) Key Advances Beyond Current Practice
(02:41 ) Risk Identification
(03:47 ) Risk Analysis
(05:13 ) Pre-commitment Through Risk Tiers
(05:35 ) Transparency and External Validation
(06:42 ) Cybersecurity and Incident Reporting
(07:41 ) Gaps and Enforcement Challenges
(10:03 ) Implications for Global AI Governance
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First published:
July 12th, 2025
Source:
https://aifrontiersmedia.substack.com/p/how-the-eus-code-of-practice-advances
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