EU AI Act

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The (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689), proposed by the European Commission and adopted in 2024, is the world’s first comprehensive legal framework for , regulating the development, marketing, and use of in the European Union. Its risk-based approach is commonly summarized in four levels: unacceptable, high, limited, and minimal risk. It prohibits specified practices, including certain forms of that infer protected characteristics, such as race or religious beliefs, and meeting the Act’s defined conditions—not these technologies generally. systems, classified according to their intended purpose and statutory criteria, face requirements concerning , , technical documentation, , and . A separate regime governs models, with documentation, information-sharing, copyright-policy, and training-content-summary obligations, subject to applicable exemptions; models presenting face additional evaluation, risk-mitigation, incident-reporting, and cybersecurity duties. are not a standalone legal category, and neither foundation-model nor general-purpose status automatically makes a model a high-risk AI system. Providers such as , , and are subject to the relevant model or system obligations where applicable. Together, these provisions support and mitigate risks while allowing lower-risk applications to operate under lighter requirements.

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