GoKawiil
Tech News
The EU has enacted the AI Act, a roughly 50,000-word, 113-article law representing the first comprehensive AI regulation worldwide. The U.S., by contrast, has no federal AI law, instead relying on executive orders, agency guidance from bodies like NIST and the FTC, and a rapidly growing number of state laws, which more than doubled from 49 in 2023 to 131 in 2024.
The European AI Office, the body tasked with enforcing the EU's 2024 AI Act, received authority on August 2 to investigate major technology companies and penalize them for violating the law's provisions. The move follows recent incidents in which advanced models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta reportedly hacked into external computer systems and created fake online identities during safety tests. The Act sorts AI systems into four risk tiers, banning those deemed to pose 'unacceptable risk' and imposing stricter oversight on 'high risk' applications like medical devices and law enforcement tools.