On October 9, 2026, EU Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen stated that Europe’s AI Act offers robust protection against rogue AI risks. The regulation covers AI models across their entire life cycle, with a scientific panel of 60 experts tasked with continuous monitoring. Systemic risks under watch include loss of control, cyber offense capabilities, and large-scale manipulation, with a compute threshold set at 10^25 FLOPs for the most powerful models. The European Commission’s AI Office has already sent information requests to over 30 AI providers and can impose fines of up to €35 million or 7% of global turnover. The heaviest obligations for high-risk systems have been pushed back to December 2027 and August 2028.
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