The negotiators of the EU's artificial intelligence regulation should strengthen and empower the regulators. Otherwise, the enforcement of this regulation will be a struggle, writes Kris Shrishak.

The negotiators of the EU’s artificial intelligence regulation should strengthen and empower the regulators. Otherwise, the enforcement of this regulation will be a struggle, writes Kris Shrishak.

Kris Shrishak is a Senior Fellow at the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, where he works on technology policy with a focus on algorithmic decision-making, surveillance, data rights, and privacy.

Imagine you have been handed the responsibility to be a key regulator for the first cross-sectoral AI regulation in the world. Now imagine that you are given scarce resources and your hands are tied.

This unenviable scenario could be the reality of future regulators of the EU’s AI Act.

The EU prides itself on having the “Brussels effect”. At the same time, it is working to produce a law that large tech companies would happily welcome and lobby to dilute further.

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