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The code of practice, which aims to provide clarity for providers of general-purpose AI systems, is expected to be ready by August 2025.
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The European Commission today announced the list of independent experts from the EU, US and Canada to lead work on a code of practice on general-purpose artificial intelligence, which includes language models such as ChatGPT and Google Gemini.
The 13 experts tasked with leading four different working groups which are expected to produce a code of best practice under the AI law by April 2025 have been named in a statement from the EU executive.
The European AI law, which came into force last month, provides strict rules for providers of GPAI models, which will come into force in August 2025.
Under the rules, the Office of AI – a unit within the Commission – is encouraged to draft a code designed to make it easier for businesses to apply the AI law’s rules, including on transparency and rules related to copyright, taxonomy of systemic risk, risk assessment and mitigation measures.
The experts had until August 25 to apply and those of the thirteen experts who were notably selected were Rishi Bommasani (United States), head of the company at the Stanford Model Research Center, Marietje Schaake (Netherlands). Bas), former MEP and now member of the Cyber Policy Center at Stanford and the Institute for Human-Centred AI, and Yoshua Bengio (Canada), known for his work on deep learning, which earned him the AM Turing Prize in 2018.
Today, around 1,000 participants, including general-purpose AI model providers, downstream vendors, industry, civil society, academia and independent experts, will take part in the first online plenary to contribute to the development of the code, the Commission said.
Last week, three EU lawmakers – Axel Voss (Germany/EPP), Svenja Hahn (Germany/Renew) and Kim van Sparrentak (Netherlands/Greens-EFL) – sent a question for a written response to the Commission in order to clarify the nomination process.
These MEPs wanted to know how the European executive selects presidents and how the latter will proceed to provide an adequate final code, in light of the short deadline that has been set. The Commission has not yet answered these questions.
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