AI Act : How Will The EU Regulate AI Systems ?

The proposal for a regulation to regulate artificial intelligence systems in a harmonised way was presented to the European Commission in April 2021.

Following an institutional trialogue, the text was adopted on 8 December 2023 and technical adjustments to ensure consistency were made in January 2024, resulting in a finalised version on 26 January 2024.

This regulation, which is part of the Digital Agenda for Europe, aims to provide a framework for one of the most disruptive technologies of recent years (or even decades), and is noteworthy in several respects.

Contrary to the criticisms usually levelled at texts aimed at regulating a posteriori technologies or uses that have already been widely deployed in practice, this European initiative will be the first large-scale binding text on artificial intelligence to be adopted anywhere in the world.