EU Regulation 2024/1689 on AI: Scope, Prohibitions and Obligations

On 12 July 2024, the AI ​​Act, EU Reg. 2024/1689, was published: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj

There are 144 pages in the Official Journal of the European Union.

I haven’t finished reading the whole document yet but I will try to summarize the main topics useful for Companies that are thinking of introducing and using AI technologies:

• Chapter I outlines the scope and exclusions (eg. for personal purposes but there are also exceptions);

• Chapter II indicates the prohibited systems;

• Chapter III establishes which are the high-risk systems and the activities that Producers and Deployers must carry out to make them available;

• Chapter IV concerns the information that suppliers of all AI systems must provide;

• Chapter V concerns AI models for general purposes: in this case there are obligations to be foreseen.

In the next article I will try to give a brief guide of some professional figures and skills to be excpected for a good management of systems based on artificial intelligence.