AI policy and power,
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A free, neutral explainer of AI regulations, export controls, national strategies, and tensions, with a country-by-country view. Factual, no opinion or political bias.
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The European Union's AI Act, adopted in 2024, is the first comprehensive horizontal AI law. It classifies systems by risk and phases in obligations through 2025 to 2027.
- Risk tiers: bans on a short list of 'unacceptable risk' uses, strict obligations for 'high-risk' systems, transparency duties for limited-risk uses, and light-touch rules elsewhere.
- Dedicated obligations for general-purpose AI models, including transparency and, for the most capable models, systemic-risk measures.
- Enforcement is phased: prohibitions applied first, with high-risk and GPAI obligations following on a staggered timeline.
- Extraterritorial reach: it can apply to providers outside the EU whose systems are used in the EU.
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