EU AI, Data And Digital: Key Considerations In The EU And The UK In 2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

The AI Act is now at the final stage of the EU legislative process, and will likely be formally approved before the European elections in Spring 2024. The AI Act has a broad scope, and it will impose market access and post-market monitoring obligations to actors across the AI value chain, both in the EU and beyond. The AI Act is complemented by the AI Liability and the Revised Product Liability Directives, which ease the evidence conditions for claiming non-contractual liability caused by AI systems, and provide for a broad list of potential liable parties for harm caused by AI systems, respectively.

Some years may elapse before any enforcement actions take place under the AI Act, however we can expect some enforcement actions will take in place in 2024 regarding compliance with AI systems, notably generative AI systems, with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Moreover, we can anticipate further clarification on