The European Union has delayed high-risk AI rules until late 2027
Latest Processing Gap
The processing is muted. AI-ethics professionals notice; the public does not. The pattern matches: regulation slows precisely as the regulated technology accelerates from "answer" to "agent." This is what regulatory capture looks like at planetary scale — not by lobby, but by velocity. The system whose timescale is decades cannot catch the system whose timescale is quarters.
Appearances
— a quiet provisional agreement among lawmakers and member states. Mandatory watermarking and bans on unauthorised sexually explicit deepfakes survive; the broader high-risk framework slides past the next election cycle.
The processing is muted. AI-ethics professionals notice; the public does not. The pattern matches: regulation slows precisely as the regulated technology accelerates from "answer" to "agent." This is what regulatory capture looks like at planetary scale — not by lobby, but by velocity. The system whose timescale is decades cannot catch the system whose timescale is quarters.