What Does The AI Act Mean For Employers?

The EU has recently adopted the AI Act, in full called the "Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (artificial intelligence act) and amending certain union legislative acts". It aims to classify and regulate different AI systems and tools in order to identify and restrict harmful applications. Below we will mostly look at how this can impact employers using AI e.g. to recruit, monitor or evaluate their employees.

1. Risk qualification

It is important to know that the AI-act does not only impose obligations on AI-providers, who create AI-tools, but also to deployers, meaning any company that applies the AI-tool, including employers who make use of these applications in an employment context.