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EU AI Act: Everything you need to know


The European Union's risk-based rulebook for artificial intelligence — aka the EU AI Act — has been years in the making. But expect to hear a lot more

Dial back the clock to April 2021, when the Commission published the original proposal and lawmakers were framing it as a law to bolster the bloc’s ability to innovate in AI by fostering trust among citizens. This means the developer must be able to demonstrate that they are meeting the law’s requirements in areas such as data quality, documentation and traceability, transparency, human oversight, accuracy, cybersecurity, and robustness. OpenAI’s Sam Altman also chipped in, suggesting, in a side remark to journalists that it might pull its tech out of Europe if laws proved too onerous, before hurriedly falling back to traditional flesh-pressing (lobbying) of regional powerbrokers after the EU called him out on this clumsy threat.

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