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Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (AI Act)

The first comprehensive AI law: a risk-based regime that bans some practices, imposes conformity assessment and lifecycle controls on high-risk systems, regulates general-purpose AI models and requires transparency for chatbots and synthetic content, with fines up to 7% of global turnover.

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Required actions

  • Do not place on the market or use AI for the practices banned in Article 5 (social scoring, manipulative techniques, untargeted facial-image scraping, emotion recognition at work and school, and others) - Classify systems against Annex I and Annex III and, for high-risk systems, run a risk-management system, data governance, technical documentation, logging, human oversight and accuracy and cybersecurity controls - Complete conformity assessment, affix the CE marking and register high-risk systems in the EU database before placing them on the market - Deployers of high-risk systems must use them per the instructions, assign human oversight, keep logs and, for public bodies and some private deployers, complete a fundamental-rights impact assessment - Providers of general-purpose AI models must keep technical documentation, publish a training-content summary, adopt a copyright policy and, for systemic-risk models, evaluate, mitigate risks, report serious incidents and secure the model - Tell people when they interact with an AI system, mark synthetic content in a machine-readable way and label deepfakes and AI-generated text on matters of public interest - Ensure staff who operate AI systems have sufficient AI literacy

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