AI Act regulates risk, not the tech underneath; compute thresholds are imperfect
MartinSignoux · x · 2026-09-16
In a discussion about open-weight model regulation, the author argues that if criteria are risk-based, any model meeting the risk criteria should fall under regulation, whether open weights or proprietary — what is regulated is the risk, not the underlying technology. This is the approach taken by the EU AI Act.
In a follow-up, he notes the current AI Act threshold is training compute volume, which is imperfect, hence the effort to develop alternative standards — the original idea behind the AISIs.
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