AI Act: EU countries headed to tiered approach on foundation models amid broader compromise

 

The EU approach to powerful AI models is taking shape as European countries discuss possible concessions in the upcoming negotiations on the world’s first comprehensive Artificial Intelligence (AI) rulebook.

The Spanish presidency of the EU Council of Ministers shared on Tuesday (17 October) a document in preparation for the next political negotiation with the European Parliament and Commission on 24 October, the so-called trilogues.

The document, seen by Euractiv, details a series of possible landing zones on the AI Act, a flagship legislative proposal to regulate AI based on its capacity to cause harm. The compromises concern critical areas of the text, including how to deal with foundation models, large machine-learning models trained on vast data sets that generate responses based on a specific stimulus. (...)