AI Governance Briefing — February 10, 2025
One week into Article 5 enforcement, Zeph Tech is executing incident sweeps and regulator-ready reporting pipelines for any residual prohibited AI detections.
Executive briefing: Article 5 prohibitions have been enforceable since . National authorities can now demand evidence that manipulative systems, biometric categorisation, untargeted facial scraping, and social scoring are fully withdrawn. Zeph Tech’s incident-response teams are treating any detection of these behaviours as a major compliance event, triggering Article 71 documentation updates and disclosure readiness for Article 72 investigations.
Regulatory checkpoints
- Immediate containment. Shut down flagged pipelines, revoke model endpoints, and notify governance boards within hours of discovering a prohibited pattern.
- Evidence preservation. Capture logs, audit trails, and human-oversight decisions to prove remediation steps and prevent data tampering claims.
- Authority engagement. Prepare to furnish technical files, supplier attestations, and corrective-action plans if market-surveillance authorities request follow-up.
Operational safeguards
- Run daily analytics that scan telemetry for Article 5 signatures, including biometric attribute inference, manipulative nudges, or social scoring features.
- Exercise notification playbooks that route potential breaches to legal, privacy, and civil-rights officers while drafting statements for affected customers.
- Audit vendor integrations and shadow IT channels to confirm third parties are not reintroducing banned capabilities after the cutover.
Next steps
- Feed incident metrics and lessons learned into Zeph Tech’s quarterly board reports and risk committee dashboards.
- Map emerging enforcement themes to 2025 general-purpose AI obligations so monitoring stacks can expand without rework.
- Coordinate with public-affairs teams to track Commission communications on enforcement priorities and penalties.