Von der Leyen calls for pacing frontier AI models in State of the EU speech
S_OhEigeartaigh · x · 2026-09-16
European Commission President von der Leyen used her State of the Union speech to endorse pacing frontier AI models, acknowledging risks of recursive self-improvement and citing the seriousness of recent OpenAI/Hugging Face-type safety incidents.
The author sees this as a major policy signal, crediting European and international experts for bringing these frontier-AI governance issues into mainstream policy attention.
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