AI Governance Briefing — April 21, 2025
Zeph Tech is stress-testing general-purpose AI models against systemic-risk scenarios so May’s code-of-practice submissions show robust evaluation coverage ahead of August obligations.
Executive briefing: Under the EU AI Act, GPAI providers must collaborate on codes of practice that document evaluation methodologies, adversarial testing, and risk mitigation measures before binding obligations arrive in August 2025. The Commission highlights systemic-risk triggers—such as the ability to materially influence democratic processes—that will demand deeper oversight. Zeph Tech is running red-team exercises, jailbreak testing, and cascading-failure drills so our May submissions capture comprehensive safety evidence.
Regulatory checkpoints
- Evaluation coverage. Article 56 expects GPAI providers to test for misuse, emergent behaviours, and safety limits, sharing methodologies with deployers.
- Systemic-risk monitoring. Providers must flag when models meet the criteria for systemic risk, triggering Article 53 obligations for incident reporting and mitigation.
- Downstream support. Codes of practice should outline how providers deliver technical guidance and safeguards to integrators and SMEs.
Operational safeguards
- Align evaluation suites with NIST AI RMF Test/Measure/Monitor functions and ISO/IEC 42006 guidance on AI system evaluation.
- Capture reproducible test harnesses, datasets, and scoring criteria so auditors can validate Zeph Tech’s claims.
- Establish escalation paths when tests expose systemic risks, including rapid notification procedures to the EU AI Office and impacted customers.
Next steps
- Publish executive summaries of major evaluation findings to Zeph Tech’s GPAI governance board and board risk committee.
- Bundle red-team outputs, safety mitigations, and deployment guardrails into the company’s 2 May 2025 code-of-practice contribution.
- Feed systemic-risk scenarios into the June readiness programme that prepares for potential Article 53 designations.