EU · binding regulation
EU AI Act
EU-AIA-2024
Comparative jurisdictional memo · Catastrophic & Existential Risk
EU · binding regulation
EU-AIA-2024
UK · policy statement
UK-WHITEPAPER-2023
Treatment of Catastrophic & Existential Risk
implicitAISI remit covers frontier-model evaluation; not in white paper text
Primary source: CP 815 (2023)
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.