The European Commission’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) office has initiated a targeted consultation with stakeholders on guidelines for defining AI systems and applying prohibitions on certain high-risk AI practices, as outlined in the EU AI Act. This consultation represents a significant step in preparing for the implementation of these provisions, which will come into effect on 2 February 2025, six months after the AI Act’s entry into force. The guidelines are expected to be finalised and published in early 2025, providing practical assistance to businesses, regulators, and other stakeholders in meeting their obligations under the Act.

As the EDPB works intensively to draft the Article 64(2) GDPR Opinion — requested by the Irish DPC and relating to AI models — we are pleased to share with all interested stakeholders  the video of the workshop we organized on this topic during the CPDPInternational Conference on 22 May 2024.

The Chair AI-Regulation announces the participation of its two research fellows, Cornelia Kutterer and Dr. Theodoros Karathanasis, as plenary experts to the European Commission (EC) consultation on a Code of Practice (CoP) for providers of General-Purpose Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) models. 

The Chair AI Regulation (MIAI) shares the article recently published in the Computer Law Review (CRi) by its research fellow, Dr. Theodoros Karathanasis, on the global outreach of the European Union AI Act’s norms.

The Chair AI Regulation (MIAI) shares the two first interim notes published on the 25 June and the 2 October 2024 by the French and independent think tank, Renaissance Numerique. The interim notes are based on the discussions held during the AI Dialogues, launched by Renaissance Numerique on 5 April, to which the Chair AI Regulation (MIAI) contributes as an academic partner.

On June 10th, 2024, the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) began a publication consultation on a second series of seven practical information sheets seeking to provide legal certainty for developers of AI systems by anticipating the relationship between the EU AI Act and the GDPR.

This article delineates the AI incident notification rules within the AI Act, illustrating a two-stage incident notification procedure. Key issues include the challenge of uniformly assessing the threshold for serious incidents, particularly for high-risk AI systems.

On May 3, 2024, in response to evolving technologies in the field of general purpose AI and generative AI, the OECD Ministerial Council adopted further revisions to its 2019 Principles on AI. The revised principles are designed to guide policymakers in developing robust AI policies and frameworks that ensure interoperability across different jurisdictions.

Nous publions aujourd’hui un pdf en français avec une table des matières interactive permettant de naviguer facilement dans le texte final du Règlement européen sur l’IA.

On April 18, 2024, the draft Framework Convention on AI was unanimously adopted by the CoE Parliamentary Assembly. The next step for the Framework Convention on AI and its ‘Draft Explanatory Report’ is for these documents to be transmitted to the Committee of Ministers for adoption at the 133rd Session of the Committee of Ministers in Strasburg (16-17 May 2024).

We publish today a pdf with an interactive Table of Contents permitting to navigate easily the final text of the AI Act! This is part of our series of tools to help practitioners and the academic community navigate through the lengthy and complex AI Regulation.

The following article features a comprehensive visualization pyramid designed to illustrate the risk-based approach of the EU AI Act in a single, intuitive graphic. This tool is intended to be useful to academics, students, practitioners, data and AI enthusiasts, as well as anyone keenly interested in the imminent adoption of the EU AI Regulation.