The Scientific Panel has recommended stronger investigation of AI loss-of-control incidents and oversight of internal models

The Commission has published the outcome of the special meeting of the AI Scientific Panel held on 9 October 2026. The Panel's chair and vice-chair recommended that the Commission and the AI Office in particular:

– ensure governance of the risks posed by internal models during development and deployment for testing;

– strengthen EU capabilities to detect, evaluate and investigate loss-of-control incidents, for example through a task force;

– establish an international initiative for information-sharing, common requirements for frontier AI developers and joint crisis response;

– apply enhanced scrutiny to training techniques and architectures that reduce the monitorability of models.

According to the Commission, the AI Office has already requested and received serious incident reports and sent requests for information on security practices. It will now send further requests combining the questions of the Scientific Panel and the AI Office. Executive Vice-President of the Commission Henna Virkkunen told the meeting that more than 20 loss-of-control incidents have been documented this year alone.