AI Governance and Tech Review November & December 2025
๐ช๐บ ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐จ ๐๐ ๐๐ฐ๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐น๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐๐๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ด๐๐น๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป:
- Within this timespan, the AI Office did not onlyย start the working groupsย on the Code of Practice on Transparency obligations, but already produced aย first draftย 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 beenย leakedย and thenย publishedย 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 proposedย change to GDPRย in order to facilitate AI training and 2. the shifted (or possibly not?) timelines for high-risk requirements, withย backstop compliance datesย in December 2027 (for systems listed in Annex III) and August 2028 (Annex I).
- The Danish NGO Institute for Human Rights published aย Guide and a template for the Fundamental Rights Impact Assessmentย – one possible and surely helpful and quite extensive interpretation of what the AI Act (article 27) requires.
- Lastly, the AI Office launched itsย Whistle Blower app.
๐ ๐๐ ๐น๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐:
- 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 onย AI flop in academia.
๐บ๐ธ ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ด๐๐น๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป & ๐๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ป๐ฎ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ:
- THE one over-arching US-topic was clearly theย Executive Oderย signed by the president aiming (again) to end state-regulation regarding (almost) anything AI.
AI Governance globally:
- India released its โIndia AI Governance Guidelinesโ defining the countryโs 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 forย AI use cases used by the government.
- Sirak Abrahaย brought my attention to theseย newsfrom the UK with relevance for all banks using Agentic AI.
๐ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ & ๐๐๐๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฒ๐:
- Capgemini & the World Economic Forum published this brightย reportย on Governing Agents.
Tech-developments:
- Not too surprisingly after a few decisive staffing choices and LeCunโs sustained criticism of the very basis (current LLMs) of the race Meta wants to compete in, he LeCunย announced to be leaving the companyย 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 includingย jailbreaks, human oversight (works both ways), infiltration and much more.
- Code Red at OpenAIย following a seemingly too-good Gemini-release.
- โฆno 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 heย could not imagine caring for a baby without ChatGPT.
