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The EU Artificial Intelligence Act
Up-to-date developments and analyses of the EU AI Act
AI Act Explorer
Browse the full AI Act text online. Search within the Act for parts which are relevant to you.
Compliance Checker
Discover how the AI Act will affect you in 10 minutes by answering a series of straightforward questions.
📄 High-Level Summary of the AI Act
Everything you need to know about the AI Act in ten minutes.
Tasks and responsibilities: 2024-25
See an overview and visual timeline of all key tasks for the AI Office (European Commission) and EU Member States as required by the EU AI Act in 2024 and 2025, with references to the sources.
What is the EU AI Act?
The AI Act is a European regulation on artificial intelligence (AI) – the first comprehensive regulation on AI by a major regulator anywhere. The Act assigns applications of AI to three risk categories. First, applications and systems that create an unacceptable risk, such as government-run social scoring of the type used in China, are banned. Second, high-risk applications, such as a CV-scanning tool that ranks job applicants, are subject to specific legal requirements. Lastly, applications not explicitly banned or listed as high-risk are largely left unregulated.
Why should you care?
AI applications influence what information you see online by predicting what content is engaging to you, capture and analyse data from faces to enforce laws or personalise advertisements, and are used to diagnose and treat cancer. In other words, AI affects many parts of your life.
Like the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2018, the EU AI Act could become a global standard, determining to what extent AI has a positive rather than negative effect on your life wherever you may be. The EU’s AI regulation is already making waves internationally – in late September 2021, Brazil’s Congress passed a bill that creates a legal framework for artificial intelligence.
How can organisations apply it?
We have developed an AI Act Compliance Checker to help SMEs and startups better understand whether they might have any legal obligations under the EU AI Act or whether they may implement the Act solely to make their business stand out as more trustworthy. This tool can help give an indication about what obligations your system might face.
Please note that our tool is a simplification. It is still a work in progress.
Articles on the AI Act
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