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🛡️AI Regulation & Governance

The emerging legal and policy landscape for AI. The EU AI Act is the first comprehensive AI law. Its obligations phase in over several years, and a 2026 amendment pushed the high-risk rules for standalone systems to December 2027 and for AI embedded in regulated products to August 2028. Treat the phase-in dates as current as of reading, not fixed. Understanding regulation is now a career advantage, every AI team needs someone who understands compliance. Inside companies this arrives as model governance: model cards, model risk management, and the audit trails standards like ISO/IEC 42001 formalize.