AI Governance and Tech Review November & December 2025
🇪🇺 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗨 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗰𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻:
- Within this timespan, the AI Office did not only start the working groups on the Code of Practice on Transparency obligations, but already produced a first draft containing almost hands-on guidance on how to label and mark AI-generated content.
- Most talked about and most relevant for 2026: The Digital Omnibus on AI Regulation proposal has first been leaked and then published in its full extend: Meaning to simplify and unify regulation, tying obligations for high-risk AI systems closer to the provision of standards, it still raised quite a few questions. Here I want to mention two particularly interesting ones: 1. the proposed change to GDPR in order to facilitate AI training and 2. the shifted (or possibly not?) timelines for high-risk requirements, with backstop compliance dates in December 2027 (for systems listed in Annex III) and August 2028 (Annex I).
- The Danish NGO Institute for Human Rights published a Guide and a template for the Fundamental Rights Impact Assessment – one possible and surely helpful and quite extensive interpretation of what the AI Act (article 27) requires.
- Lastly, the AI Office launched its Whistle Blower app.
📚 𝗔𝗜 𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘆:
- One of the clear points of the Omnibus refers to a topic I very much care about, AI Literacy, demoting it from an obligation for organisations to a recommendation, while shifting the responsibility to governments. It was such an achievement to position this obligation differently than other regulations – I will write about the implications of this soon!
- The Rolling Stones Magazine (yes, just that one) published a well-written (and -researched) article on AI flop in academia.
🇺🇸 𝗨𝗦 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 & 𝗚𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲:
- THE one over-arching US-topic was clearly the Executive Oder signed by the president aiming (again) to end state-regulation regarding (almost) anything AI.
AI Governance globally:
- India released its “India AI Governance Guidelines” defining the country’s own position on AI Governance, including a focus on trust, the commitment to establish interdisciplinary committees within the government (including the AI Governance Group and the AI Safety Institute) alongside practical guidelines.
- Canada launched their AI register for AI use cases used by the government.
- Sirak Abraha brought my attention to these newsfrom the UK with relevance for all banks using Agentic AI.
📄 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 & 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀:
- Capgemini & the World Economic Forum published this bright report on Governing Agents.
Tech-developments:
- Not too surprisingly after a few decisive staffing choices and LeCun’s sustained criticism of the very basis (current LLMs) of the race Meta wants to compete in, he LeCun announced to be leaving the company and instead work on his own startup.
- Antrophic published an insightful report on a campaign detected in specific but allowing conclusions for the state of cyber security in general including jailbreaks, human oversight (works both ways), infiltration and much more.
- Code Red at OpenAI following a seemingly too-good Gemini-release.
- …no good review without scary Altman-content (he might get his own category soon): While I also turn to the internet (there was no ChatGPT when my children were babies) for some parenting choices, I do hope Altman is not representative in stating (without shame!) that he could not imagine caring for a baby without ChatGPT.
