The EU AI Act is pushing companies to tighten governance of their AI agents. Identity, access control, traceability and human oversight are becoming key to balancing agent autonomy with security.
Nvidia's investments are attracting French startups, but this opinion piece warns they raise a key question. The challenge is to grow French AI without giving up technological sovereignty or companies' freedom of decision.
From October 23, 2026, any hiring, evaluation, disciplinary or dismissal decision made with AI in Italy must be taken by a person with real authority, or it will be void, even if the employee consented. The EU platform work directive, which reserves account suspensions to humans, must be transposed by December 2, while a French Senate bill would ban disciplinary sanctions based automatically on an algorithm's output.
Using test accounts posing as 13-year-olds, the Tech Transparency Project downloaded 135 apps able to generate nonconsensual nude images. The report comes as families describe students using such AI apps to create sexual content from classmates' photos.
Anthropic has reportedly submitted draft legislation to US lawmakers that would allow an AI model to be blocked. The trigger would be an imminent risk of more than $1 billion in damage or 50 people killed or seriously injured.
After the October 17 protest, the use of AI to monitor crowds is back in the debate in France. Former national police chief Frédéric Péchenard wants more tools to analyze images in real time, but putting them in place is not straightforward.