EU · binding regulation
EU AI Act
EU-AIA-2024
Comparative jurisdictional memo · Catastrophic & Existential Risk
EU · binding regulation
EU-AIA-2024
CN · binding regulation
CN-GENAI-2023
Treatment of Catastrophic & Existential Risk
silentPRC framing uses 'safety + security' broadly, not catastrophic risk
Primary source: CAC Order No. 15
On the topic of Catastrophic & Existential Risk, EU AI Act is classified as implicit and Interim Measures for Generative AI Service Management as silent. The editorial verdict is asymmetric. One regime addresses the topic explicitly while the other covers it only implicitly or not at all; this is a likely site of regulatory arbitrage and a candidate for comparative-law follow-up.
Contested question: Are current frontier-model capabilities a meaningful contribution to catastrophic-risk probability? Field is split between catastrophic-risk-as-imminent (FLI, CAIS) and catastrophic-risk-as-speculative (Pope et al., Andersson) positions.