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EU Artificial Intelligence Act (Regulation 2024/1689)
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The EU AI Act (effective August 2024, phased implementation through 2027) is the most significant AI-specific legislation globally and a key reference point for AI governance discussions, directly relevant to compute governance and frontier model oversight debates in the AI safety community.
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Summary
The EU AI Act is the world's first comprehensive legal framework regulating artificial intelligence, establishing a risk-based classification system for AI systems with obligations scaled to potential harm. It bans certain AI applications outright, imposes strict requirements on high-risk systems, and creates transparency obligations for general-purpose AI models including those with systemic risk. The regulation applies to providers, deployers, and importers operating in the EU market.
Key Points
- •Establishes a four-tier risk classification: unacceptable risk (banned), high-risk (strict requirements), limited risk (transparency obligations), and minimal risk (voluntary codes).
- •Introduces specific obligations for general-purpose AI (GPAI) models, with enhanced requirements for frontier models exceeding 10^25 FLOPs training compute.
- •Bans high-risk AI uses including social scoring, real-time biometric surveillance in public spaces, and AI that exploits psychological vulnerabilities.
- •Requires conformity assessments, technical documentation, human oversight mechanisms, and post-market monitoring for high-risk AI systems.
- •Establishes the EU AI Office to oversee GPAI models and coordinate enforcement across member states, with penalties up to 7% of global turnover.
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# 2024/1689
# REGULATION (EU) 2024/1689 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL
of 13 June 2024
laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence and amending Regulations (EC) No 300/2008, (EU) No 167/2013, (EU) No 168/2013, (EU) 2018/858, (EU) 2018/1139 and (EU) 2019/2144 and Directives 2014/90/EU, (EU) 2016/797 and (EU) 2020/1828 (Artificial Intelligence Act)
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HE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Articles 16 and 114 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,
After transmission of the draft legislative act to the national parliaments,
Having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee ( 1 ),
Having regard to the opinion of the European Central Bank ( 2 ),
Having regard to the opinion of the Committee of the Regions ( 3 ),
Acting in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure ( 4 ),
# Whereas:
(1) The purpose of this Regulation is to improve the functioning of the internal market by laying down a uniform legal framework in particular for the development, the placing on the market, the putting into service and the use of artificial intelligence systems (AI systems) in the Union, in accordance with Union values, to promote the uptake of human centric and trustworthy artificial intelligence (AI) while ensuring a high level of protection of health, safety, fundamental rights as enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (the ‘Charter’), including democracy, the rule of law and environmental protection, to protect against the harmful effects of AI systems in the Union, and to support innovation. This Regulation ensures the free movement, cross-border, of AI-based goods and services, thus preventing Member States from imposing restrictions on the development, marketing and use of AI systems, unless explicitly authorised by this Regulation.
(2) This Regulation should be applied in accordance with the values of the Union enshrined as in the Charter, facilitating the protection of natural persons, undertakings, democracy, the rule of law and environmental protection, while boosting innovation and employment and making the Union a leader in the uptake of trustworthy AI.
(3) AI systems can be easily deployed in a large variety of sectors of the economy and many parts of society, including across borders, and can easily circulate throughout the Union. Certain Member States have already explored the adoption of national rules to ensure that AI is trustworthy and safe and is developed and used in accordance with fundamental rights obligations. Diverging national rules may lead to the fragmentation of the internal market and may decrease legal certainty for operators that develop, import or use AI systems. A consistent and high level of protection throughout the Union should therefore be ensured in order to achieve t
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