“Now is a good moment” for the world to agree on how to disclose “sensitive corporate information and oversight,” Schaake said.
Laura Caroli, an independent AI researcher who was a key advisor on the drafting of the European Union’s 2023 Artificial Intelligence Act, said the EU was “sidelined … because the model is not released on the market.” If it was, Anthropic would have binding rules and commitments under EU law.
But, Caroli said, the EU could keep some form of oversight through the network of AI safety institutes, of which the Commission’s AI Office is part.
The European Commission’s digital spokesperson Thomas Regnier said the executive was “currently assessing possible implications” with regard to EU legislation and was keeping tab of the “security implications” of the technology in general.
Under the AI Act, providers like Anthropic have to address cyber risks stemming from their models, and the bloc’s Cyber Resilience Act imposes mandatory cybersecurity requirements “for all products with digital elements placed on the EU market,” Regnier said.
Still, European officials are at the mercy of Anthropic and its tech peers, said Caroli. “It makes you wonder … if it wasn’t Anthropic, but [China’s] DeepSeek?”
