Safety testing and evaluation: AI obligations

Practical requirements extracted from policy instruments, with the source article, the actors they bind, evidence examples and original framework mappings. Legal requirements are marked; everything else is voluntary guidance.

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Legal requirement safety testing California (United States)

Large frontier developers must publish a frontier AI framework

California SB 53 · Business and Professions Code, Chapter 25.1 (as added by SB 53)

Large frontier developers must publish and maintain a framework describing how they incorporate national and international standards, assess catastrophic risk, apply mitigations, secure model weights, and govern internal processes, and must review it at least annually.

Source-linked Applies from 1 Jan 2026
Legal requirement safety testing European Union

Manage systemic risk for high-impact general-purpose models

EU AI Act · Articles 51, 52 and 55

A general-purpose model is presumed to have systemic risk when the cumulative compute used for training exceeds 10^25 floating-point operations, or when the Commission designates it. Providers must notify the Commission, perform model evaluations including adversarial testing, assess and mitigate systemic risks, track and report serious incidents, and ensure adequate cybersecurity for the model and infrastructure.

Source-linked Applies from 2 Aug 2025
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