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The European AI Office is part of the European Union's European Commission. It governs all aspects of AI in Europe, including frontier AI safety and security, innovation, EU competitiveness, application-focussed AI regulation, and AI for good. The AI Office has five units, including one for AI safety and one for regulation and compliance.
The AI safety unit aims to prevent large-scale risks from frontier AI. They implement and enforce the General-Purpose AI aspects of the EU AI Act, the world’s first binding legal framework for frontier AI safety and security. The AI Act, amongst other things, compels providers of frontier AI systems to assess and mitigate large-scale risks, report serious incident, have cyber-security protections for model weight in place, and protect whistleblowers.
Tasks of the AI safety unit include drafting legislation, enforcing that companies adhere to their obligations, fostering international cooperation, informing EU member states on AI progress and risks, and strengthening the development and use of trustworthy AI.