The European Union’s Regulation on Artificial Intelligence (AI Regulation or, in English, the AI Act) establishes a uniform legal framework for the use of AI. Its aim is to promote innovation whilst ensuring safety, transparency and the protection of fundamental rights. For businesses, this means that the use and application of AI systems will in future be subject to clear legal rules. The European Union’s Regulation on Artificial Intelligence (AI Regulation or, in short, the AI Act) establishes a uniform legal framework for the use of AI. Its aim is to promote innovation whilst ensuring safety, transparency and the protection of fundamental rights. For businesses, this means that the use and application of AI systems will in future be subject to clear legal rules. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
The impact of the AI Regulation on your business
The AI Regulation does not regulate the technology itself, but rather the use of AI. It is a product safety law.
The higher the risk, the more obligations you must fulfil. To assess which risk category the AI you are using falls into, you can carry out a compliance check.
What exactly can I expect?
AI expertise
As AI expertise needs to be tailored to employees’ skills and roles, it makes sense to develop such bespoke training in collaboration with a provider. Furthermore, employees should be kept informed about the latest developments and the regulations they need to observe.
AI transparency requirements
The aim is to ensure that ordinary consumers can tell, through providers and operators, that they are interacting with an AI system.
This is particularly important in the case of chatbots, synthetically generated content, emotion recognition systems and deepfakes.
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The Compliance Check
If you would like to find out more for yourself first, the best way to assess compliance is to refer to the information provided by the European Commission’s AI Office, which has developed a compliance check. This tool helps you and your organisation to assess your AI systems and to implement the relevant requirements of the AI Regulation in a simple and practical way.
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Pia Staudenmaier
Expert in AI law
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