The EU’s secret weapon for enlargement: AI

The European Commission is using an in-house AI tool to assess candidate countries' laws for alignment with EU legislation, aiming to speed up the enlargement process as staff face increased workload from many prospective members.

BRUSSELS — The European Commission is using artificial intelligence to speed up its work with prospective members of the EU. Two officials from the Commission who work on enlargement told POLITICO their department has been using an AI tool to assess candidate countries’ laws to ensure they align with EU legislation, as staff struggle to cope with an increased workload caused by so many countries banging on the bloc's door. The AI tool used is the Commission’s own creation, the officials said. The EU executive launched GPT@EC https://www.politico.eu/article/european-union-artificial-intelligence-chat-dg-digit-policy-generative-ai-chatgpt/ , a generative AI tool for its staff, in 2024 amid privacy and security fears about American services such as ChatGPT and Claude.