EASA Opens First Artificial Intelligence Consultation

EASA has launched its first regulatory proposal on artificial intelligence (AI) for aviation, with the public consultation now open for three months. Notice of Proposed Amendment 2025-07 aims to “help prepare for the future requirements for AI-based assistance and AI-human teaming.” This, EASA continued, is intended to help establish a “comprehensive AI-trustworthiness regulatory framework” that will allow for the safe and innovative integration of the technology into the aviation sector.

Areas of focus include providing guidance on AI assurance, human factors, and ethics, alongside encompassing data-driven AI-based systems. EASA adds that this foundation “should significantly reduce the operational safety risks associated with the deployment of high-risk AI applications.”

With artificial intelligence a rapidly expanding area, the proposal is therefore intended to “[lay] a flexible and solid foundation for future adaptation as technology evolves.” It includes scope to encourage what EASA terms “controlled experimentation with AI in lower-risk areas” while supporting “the development of AI systems that are both technically reliable and operationally understandable.”

A second notice of proposed amendment will be issued in 2026 to deploy EASA’s “generic [AI] framework” to the “regulations of the relevant aviation domains.”