The EU lawmakers spearheading the work on the AI rulebook suggested a first set of criteria to identify the most powerful foundation models that must follow a specific regime.

The AI Act is a landmark EU legislation to regulate Artificial Intelligence based on its potential to harm people. The file is currently at the last stage of the legislative process, so-called trilogues, whereby the EU Commission, Parliament, and Council hash out the final provisions.

One of the sticking points in this late stage of the negotiations has been dealing with foundation models like GPT-4, on which several AI applications can be built, like the world’s most famous chatbot, ChatGPT.

On Tuesday (7 November), Euractiv exclusively revealed that the Spanish EU Council presidency, which leads the negotiations on behalf of the Council, circulated a first draft of obligations for foundation models, including the most powerful ones, dubbed ‘high-impact’.

On Wednesday, the offices of the European Parliament’s co-rapporteurs Dragoș Tudorache and Brando Benifei shared a reaction to the presidency’s draft with MEPs. The co-rapporteurs’ text will be discussed at a political meeting on Thursday.

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