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Comparative jurisdictional memo · Catastrophic & Existential Risk

EU AI Act vs UK Pro-Innovation Approach to AI Regulation (White Paper)

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What this comparison shows

On the topic of Catastrophic & Existential Risk, EU AI Act is classified as implicit and UK Pro-Innovation Approach to AI Regulation (White Paper) as implicit. The editorial verdict is converges. The two regimes take the same position; this is a candidate for cross-jurisdictional alignment in industry guidance, voluntary codes, and harmonisation tracks.

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.

Bibliography

  1. Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 EU AI Act.
  2. CP 815 (2023) UK Pro-Innovation Approach to AI Regulation (White Paper).
  3. Policy Window — Catastrophic & Existential Risk (cross-jurisdiction topic article with full 26-instrument coverage matrix).

Catalog-derived comparison. Generated . No LLM-generated prose — all classifications + citations come from the typed catalog at src/lib/international-governance/instruments.ts. How this is made.

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