FAR.AI leads the EU AI Act CBRN risk consortium

FAR.AI announces it was selected by the European Commission's AI Office to lead the consortium for CBRN risk modeling and assessment under the EU AI Act, providing technical safety research for the Act's implementation. The consortium consists of FAR.AI (AI safety research and red teaming), SecureBio (biothreat assessment), and SaferAI (AI governance and risk modeling), with GovAI, Nemesys Insights, and Equistamp as subcontractors; the awarded project is EC-CNECT/2025/OP/0032 Lot 1. Over the next three years, FAR.AI will work with the AI Office on risk modeling and scenario development, building assessment tools and standardized reporting processes, red teaming and adversarial testing, and regular briefings to the Commission on new developments in models, risk sources, elicitation techniques, mitigations, and incidents. FAR.AI will also participate as a subcontractor in Lot 4 of the same tender for harmful manipulation risk modeling and assessment.