Von der Leyen: SI will soon make it possible to hack everything — EU will invite labs to discuss slowing down
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For the first time at the highest level, the European Union has acknowledged that SI has become a force on the scale of cyberweapons, but instead of racing it chooses the role of an observer with a brake, effectively leaving the frontier of progress to others.
In her annual State of the Union address, the European Commission president said that models now in development "will enable hacking at a level we considered impossible" and will soon end up in adversaries' hands; as examples she cited the OpenAI incident with Hugging Face and self-improving models. She promised to invite leading SI labs to discuss how the EU can support their own efforts to slow down, and announced joint work with Canada and the UK on model evaluation and an early warning system. The same speech announced the Kids Act, a ban on social media under 13 with an obligation for platforms to prove safety, and a "Quality Jobs Act" because of SI's uneven effect. The tone has also shifted: Europe, in her words, does not necessarily have to build frontier SI itself to benefit from it.