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The AI Office is the body established within the European Commission to oversee the application of the EU AI Act at the Union level, with particular attention to general-purpose AI models. It is the central reference point for ensuring consistent application of the regulation across member states, each of which nonetheless retains its own national supervisory authorities for AI systems used within its territory.
Its tasks include monitoring the most advanced foundation models, assessing systemic risks associated with the most capable models, developing guidelines and codes of good practice to help companies correctly interpret regulatory obligations, and coordinating with national authorities to ensure uniform application across the Union. It also has investigative powers and can request information from providers of general-purpose models.
For companies developing foundation models or high-impact AI systems, the AI Office represents the institutional counterpart for complex or cross-border compliance issues, while for more limited applications the counterpart typically remains the competent national authority of one's own member state.
The establishment of the AI Office was provided for within the EU AI Act regulatory package as a response to the need for centralized, highly specialized supervisory capacity, modeled on other European agencies overseeing technically complex sectors, in order to avoid inconsistent interpretations of the regulation across different member states.
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