Extract from Rhys Dipshan’s article “3 Pressing Compliance Questions as the EU AI Act Clock Starts Running”
Editor’s note: This is an accompanying piece to an earlier article on the EU AI Act entering into force, the timeline for its provisions coming online, and the compliance challenges it will bring.
On Aug. 1, the EU AI Act “entered into force,” starting the countdown to a number of provisions coming into effect over the next several years. The regulation applies to both the developers and users of artificial intelligence systems, and mandates a host of new obligations.
The act places AI systems into one of four risk categories—unacceptable, high, limited and minimal or no risk—while also including a parallel, separate “general-purpose AI system” (GPAI) category for AI systems with broad use cases, such as generative AI models.
While the regulation is finalized, there is still much that needs to be ironed out, from exactly how it applies to parties outside EU borders to upcoming guidelines on how generative AI providers can adhere to its prescriptive requirements.
Below, we look at the most pressing questions posed by the act, ones that will likely shape how organizations comply with the regulation, and what they can expect from the law.
