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The EU AI Act

European Union · regulation, in force 2024-27·144 pg in the original·original at eur-lex.europa.eu
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  • Risk tiers, not technology bans. The Act regulates by use: unacceptable-risk practices such as social scoring are prohibited, high-risk uses are heavily regulated, and minimal-risk uses are left mostly alone.
  • High-risk means real obligations: risk management, data governance, documentation, human oversight, and conformity assessment before such systems reach the EU market.
  • General-purpose models get their own chapter. Providers owe technical documentation and copyright-policy transparency, with extra duties for models posing systemic risk.
  • Teeth and a timeline. It entered into force in August 2024 and applies in stages into 2027, with fines up to 35 million euros or 7% of worldwide turnover for banned practices.
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•Why it earns a slot

Anyone building or buying AI in Europe operates inside this document, and almost nobody has read past the press release.

The first broad AI law sorts systems by risk: a few uses banned outright, high-risk uses carry heavy obligations, and general-purpose models owe transparency. It phases in through 2027, and fines reach 7% of global revenue.

This distillation is written from the freely available original, which is always the better read when you have the time: eur-lex.europa.eu.

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