Loophole in the EU AI Act: How Agentic AI circumvents security rules

The EU AI Act primarily defines systemic risks with regard to large models that exceed certain training thresholds.

However, the current trend toward agentic AI fundamentally challenges this approach. New protocols such as the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) enable smaller AI models to operate in chained processes — each remaining below regulatory thresholds, yet collectively posing potentially significant systemic risks.

In his expert article for IT-Sicherheit magazine, asvin CEO Mirko Ross analyzes how this development challenges the regulatory framework of the EU AI Act and outlines approaches needed to mitigate such emerging risks.

Read more in the latest issue: 01/26:
👉 https://www.itsicherheit-online.com/magazin-it-sicherheit/

New Challenge for AI Act through Agentic-AI - IT-Sicherheit
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