Bottom line: The EU Commission is expanding its AI Office by 40 positions ahead of the activation of enforcement mechanisms under the EU AI Act to take action against non-compliant AI systems.
The European Commission has launched recruitment for 40 new positions in its Artificial Intelligence Office, which will receive full enforcement powers for the EU AI Act starting Sunday. The two affected departments for AI regulation and frontier model risk monitoring currently have only 71 employees.
The European Commission has launched a hiring call for its Artificial Intelligence Office to increase capacity in enforcing the European Union’s new AI rules. The Office, which was established two years ago and belongs to the Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology, is to fill a total of 40 new positions over the coming two years. Two departments are affected: one for AI regulation and compliance, and another specializing in monitoring risks from frontier models, such as in the areas of cybersecurity or loss of control.
Starting next Sunday, 2 February 2025, the AI Office will receive full enforcement powers under the EU AI Act. This concretely means: the Office can impose fines and force companies to withdraw their models from the market if they are not compliant. These powers apply in particular to providers of large language models and other high-risk AI systems.
The planned staffing increase is being justified primarily in light of the challenges of the coming months. EU politicians and AI experts had expressed concerns in the weeks before the activation of enforcement mechanisms about whether the AI Office would actually be able to take action against leading companies in the AI sector. Computer scientist Yoshua Bengio, one of the three founding figures of deep learning, told POLITICO in early February: “They have really good people, but not enough.”
Source: www.politico.eu · Published 31 July 2026
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