EU AI Act to Mandate External Adversarial Evaluations for Open-Weight Models
StephenLCasper · x · 2026-08-01
With the codes starting to kick in soon, the EU AI Act's Code of Practice is drawing renewed attention. A researcher points out that the appendices unambiguously require developers of open-weight frontier models to let external evaluators conduct adversarial fine-tuning evals.
Described as a very novel requirement amidst ongoing debates over open-weight models, the mandate represents a significant regulatory step toward enforcing security and accountability for frontier AI.
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