AI Office publishes frontier-AI expert report — 'next one to two years decisive' for EU
The EU AI Office released a report distilling input from over 100 experts on how Europe can build competitiveness, sovereignty and security in frontier AI, warning that the next one to two years are decisive if the EU is to move to a position of strength. The candid diagnosis: world-class research and talent, but frontier development concentrated overseas, and computing infrastructure and growth-stage capital not yet at the scale frontier AI requires. The line that matters for compliance advisers is the explicit call for 'legal certainty around training data in copyright and data protection' as a named barrier to growth — read alongside the 8 July EDPB scraping and anonymisation guidelines, it signals the Commission itself now treats the lawful-basis question for training data as a competitiveness problem, not just a compliance one. Not binding law and does not reflect the Commission's official position, but it maps where policy pressure and future guidance will flow.
Source: European Commission — AI Office
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Begin in writing →This briefing is general information, not legal advice, and does not create an advisor–client relationship. Summaries are original; follow source links for the full record. Adesanya AI Advisory — Abdulwahab B. Adesanya, LL.M in Intellectual Property & IT Law (UCD).