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The world's first comprehensive AI law is phasing in through 2027. Where the obligations stand today — 3 days until the next deadline.
1 August 2024
In force
Act enters into force
2 February 2025
In force
Prohibitions apply (social scoring, manipulative AI, most real-time biometric ID) + AI-literacy duty
2 August 2025
In force
General-purpose AI model obligations apply; governance structures (AI Office, penalties) in place
2 August 2026
Up next
Article 50 transparency duties apply: chatbots must disclose they are AI; synthetic content and deepfakes must be labeled (watermarking grace period for systems already on market runs to 2 Dec 2026)
2 August 2027
Ahead
Member-state AI regulatory sandboxes due (postponed one year by the Digital Omnibus); compliance date for GPAI models placed on market before Aug 2025
2 December 2027
Ahead
High-risk system obligations (Annex III) apply — hiring, credit scoring, education, law enforcement. Moved from 2 Aug 2026 by the Digital Omnibus on AI
2 August 2028
Ahead
High-risk systems embedded in regulated products (Annex I) — moved from 2027 by the Digital Omnibus
What the Act does, in one minute
The AI Act sorts systems by risk. Prohibited: social scoring by public authorities, manipulative systems that cause harm, scraping face images to build recognition databases, and most real-time remote biometric identification in public. High-risk (hiring, credit scoring, education, medical devices, law enforcement): conformity assessment, risk management, human oversight, logging and registration before market. Transparency tier: chatbots must disclose they are AI; deepfakes must be labeled. General-purpose models face documentation and copyright-policy duties, with extra evaluation and incident-reporting obligations above a systemic-risk compute threshold.
Maximum penalties reach €35M or 7% of global turnover for prohibited practices. Enforcement sits with national authorities plus the EU AI Office for general-purpose models.
Full text and analysis: artificialintelligenceact.eu · Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 on EUR-Lex
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