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EU AI Act

Also called Artificial Intelligence Act, AI Act, Regulation (EU) 2024/1689.

EU AI Act is the usual name for Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, the European Union’s law on artificial intelligence. It sorts AI uses by risk: a few are banned, some need transparency, and high-risk uses such as some recruitment tools carry strict duties, which the Digital Omnibus of July 2026 put back to 2 December 2027.

Think of it as

Product safety rules, scaled to how much harm a use could do.

Why it matters at work

It can apply to a UK organisation that sells AI systems into the EU, whose AI output is used there, or that runs AI through an EU branch; a business whose AI use stays entirely within the UK generally isn’t covered. Module 7 looks at what it means for decisions about people.

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