The European Commission’s European Artificial Intelligence Office (AI Office) “employs more than 140 staff members, including over 40 in its AI safety unit, the majority of whom have technical backgrounds, particularly in cybersecurity,” confirmed the Executive Vice-President for Technological Sovereignty, Henna Virkkunen, in a parliamentary reply to Piotr Müller (ECR, Polish), who had asked about the number of officials working on advanced models and whether the EU had the technical capacity to enforce rules in this area, following revelations concerning the Mythos model developed by the company Anthropic (see EUROPE 13862/4, 13863/5).
The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA), to which Anthropic has offered access to its Mythos model (see EUROPE 13879/14), also provides support to the Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT) and its unit specifically dedicated to cybersecurity. Once the AI Office’s full executive powers come into effect in August 2026, “requests for information and, where necessary, access to models will become mandatory”, Ms Virkkunen pointed out. (Original version in French by Ana Pisonero Hernández)