{"id":559386,"date":"2026-08-05T04:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T04:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/559386\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T04:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T04:00:07","slug":"opinion-new-european-union-artificial-intelligence-act-is-already-outdated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/559386\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | New European Union Artificial Intelligence Act is already outdated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"OOOKZH2PMJBZHICVX2TXTWPHMU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The European Union <a href=\"https:\/\/digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu\/en\/news\/commission-starts-enforcing-ai-act-rules-and-new-transparency-requirements-2-august\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu\/en\/news\/commission-starts-enforcing-ai-act-rules-and-new-transparency-requirements-2-august\" target=\"_blank\">began enforcement<\/a> this week of what it bills as the world\u2019s first comprehensive artificial intelligence law. It\u2019s already outdated.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"W45HJRQIHJESDFS5CJU3XVKUJM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The bureaucrats in Brussels are struggling to keep up with the breakneck pace of technological progress. In 2024, when this passed, the law decreed that an AI model is presumed to pose a \u201csystemic risk\u201d if it\u2019s trained using more than 10 to the power of 25 mathematical operations \u2014 a snapshot of where the frontier stood during negotiations. Models are now far more capable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The European Union began enforcement this week of what it bills as the world\u2019s first comprehensive artificial intelligence&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-559386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}