What is the EU AI Act?
The EU AI Act, Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, entered into force on 1 August 2024. It regulates how AI systems are developed, placed on the market and used in the EU, following a risk-based approach:
- Prohibited practices: for example social scoring or manipulative techniques that cause harm.
- High-risk systems: for example AI that helps decide on job applications, promotions or creditworthiness. These come with duties on risk management, data quality, documentation and human oversight.
- Transparency obligations: in certain cases people must be able to tell that they are talking to an AI system or looking at AI-generated content.
- Minimal risk: most applications, with no specific obligations.
The regulation distinguishes roles, mainly providers (who develop an AI system and place it on the market) and deployers (who use it professionally). Obligations apply in stages: prohibitions and the duty to ensure staff AI literacy since February 2025, rules for general-purpose AI models since August 2025, most of the rest from August 2026 and 2027. Some deadlines are still being adjusted at EU level; check the current status.
This entry is not legal advice.
The EU AI Act at Openbase.one
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