The EU’s response to these threats hinges on its ability to hire knowledgeable people or to foster ties with leading AI companies — something the U.K. has done a better job of than Brussels. The EU executive has to compete with exorbitant industry salaries and more competitive AI hubs, including London.
It’s “clearly visible” that the U.K.’s AI Security Institute has the capability to “push at the very frontier of what’s possible in the scientific field,” said Stanislav Fort, chief scientific officer at European AI security firm Aisle.
“I think this capability is not present right now at the EU AI Office, and it would be amazing to have,” he added.
According to Regnier, the Commission spokesperson, “the AI Office has built state-of-the-art model evaluation capacity.”
But critics argued that the AI Office, and especially the safety unit, needs more staff, and especially more gifted coders in its ranks, as the amount of advanced AI models is set to explode and the models themselves will become ever more capable.
Brando Benifei, an Italian social-democrat lawmaker with the European Parliament, called on the Commission to give “the AI Office more staff, deeper technical expertise, and a real budget to match the scale and speed of frontier AI.”
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