Its been a busy week for AI policymakers.

The EU has sealed the deal on its AI Act.

To say that the past year was the one when the world woke up toAIwould be an understatement.

New global AI safety commitments echo EU’s risk-based approach

Mitigating AI risk of varying nature

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Could AI regulation cycles speed up?

The AI Seoul Summit comes over six months after the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park in the UK.

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Paris will host the next gathering the AI Action Summit in February 2025.

Given the rapid advancement of AI, we need much shorter cycles of regulation.

This will be challenging, as governments and regulatory authorities will need to accelerate their pace, he adds.

This is something that may prove tricky for the EU in particular, given the blocs consensus-driven regulatory cycles.

Nonetheless, EU ministers this weeksigned the landmark AI Act, which will enter into force next month.

Whether they are successful in their quest, only time will tell.

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