The GATE Institute is part of the Working Group on the creation of the first Code of Conduct in the field of general-purpose AI. The initiative is of the European AI Office, a hub of expertise on AI in the EU under the EU Artificial Intelligence Act. The Code will cover critical areas such as transparency, copyright rules, risk identification and assessment, risk mitigation and internal risk management.

The first plenary session establishing the Code of Conduct on General Purpose Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) will take place on Monday 30 September from 15:00 to 16:30 CET. A wide range of stakeholders are invited to develop it – including representatives of academia, independent experts, industry, the non-governmental sector.

The contribution of the GATE Institute as the First Centre of Excellence in Big Data AI in Eastern Europe will be to the development of concrete practices and policies in the development and use of AI models. This will also happen within the framework of GATE ERPL – the latest Laboratory of the Institute for Experimental Regulation and Digital Policies, an innovative opportunity for interdisciplinary technology development and testing (sandbox), as well as prototyping and modeling of new legal and ethical solutions.

In this way, ERPL provides both a hybrid combination of technology analysis, legal and ethical services to research organizations, as well as the first of its kind for Bulgaria and one of the few in the EU controlled environment to test the feasibility, effectiveness and potential of new solutions, including general-purpose AI models.

The European Commission is expected to finalise the Code of Conduct on General Purpose Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) by April 2025, a year after the entry into force of the AI Act in August 2024.