EU AI Act
World's first horizontal AI law; risk tiers + GPAI/foundation-model rules
The EU AI Act (in force Aug 2024, phasing in through 2025-2027) is the first comprehensive AI regulation, using a risk-based framework that bans certain uses, imposes obligations on high-risk systems, and adds transparency/systemic-risk duties for general-purpose (foundation) models via a 2025 Code of Practice. It shapes how frontier labs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral) deploy in Europe and drives compliance costs, though 2025 saw industry pushback and talk of simplification ('digital omnibus'). It is the demand-side regulatory node influencing model providers globally.
In force
Aug 2024, phased to 2027
GPAI rules
2025 Code of Practice
Scope
risk tiers + systemic models
How it fits the stack
EU AI Act with what it depends on (above) and what it feeds (below). The figure renders as a crawlable diagram and upgrades to an interactive 3D graph as it scrolls into view.
EU AI Act in the AI stack. EU AI Act with its immediate upstream dependencies (top) and downstream dependents (bottom) in the AI value chain. Hover a node in 3D, or read the full relationships below.
Graph data (text) — 5 entities, 4 relationships
- Aleph Alpha —depends on→ EU AI Act
- Content Licensing & Copyright Regime —depends on→ EU AI Act
- EU AI Act GPAI Code of Practice —depends on→ EU AI Act
- EU AI Act —partners with→ AI Safety Institutes (US CAISI / UK AISI)
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