Thanks Neil—I share your concerns. However, to your point on vagueness: most policymakers also think it is more vague than usual. The Commission intends to clarify a lot during the trilogue based on input from the Parliament and the Council. They have also mandated standard-setting organisations ETSI and CEN-CENELEC to develop harmonized standards for operationalizing some of the governance concepts very concretely (E.g. defining techno-operationally what “robustness” is or what constitutes sufficient “human oversight”). They did not want to overspecify the regulations because they want a lot of expert input before enshrining them into law. So in my opinion it is a good thing that they have left it vague, rather than off-the-mark.
Thanks Neil—I share your concerns. However, to your point on vagueness: most policymakers also think it is more vague than usual. The Commission intends to clarify a lot during the trilogue based on input from the Parliament and the Council. They have also mandated standard-setting organisations ETSI and CEN-CENELEC to develop harmonized standards for operationalizing some of the governance concepts very concretely (E.g. defining techno-operationally what “robustness” is or what constitutes sufficient “human oversight”). They did not want to overspecify the regulations because they want a lot of expert input before enshrining them into law. So in my opinion it is a good thing that they have left it vague, rather than off-the-mark.