Professor Alan Smeaton:

One of the things about the EU AI Act was that, as Professor Ahern said, its development started preceding the emergence of the popularity of generative AI. They went back and put a pause on it and said they need to go back. Adopting a risk-based approach means that it insulates it somewhat from the developments of technology. It is not about the details of foundation models, inference speed or inference mechanisms. It is the risk associated, with the different levels of risk inbuilt into the AI Act. That kind of insulates it from the development of technology somewhat.