What is the AI regulation (AI Act)?

The EU's law on artificial intelligence: what it requires from ordinary organisations, which parts are already in force, and why most of it is less scary than it sounds.

What is the AI regulation, often called the AI Act?

The AI Act is the EU's law on artificial intelligence, the first comprehensive AI law in the world. It sorts AI use by risk: some things are banned completely, like social scoring, high-risk systems, such as AI in recruitment or credit decisions, get strict requirements, and everyday office AI ends up in the light category with mainly transparency rules.

For most companies and public sector organisations, it’s the transparency rules that show up in daily work: AI-generated content should be recognisable as AI-generated, deepfakes must be visibly labelled, and anyone chatting with a machine should understand that. Those rules have been in force since 2 August 2026, with no transition period. The details live in Article 50, which has its own page in this glossary.

In EuroWork, the service handles its part of the labelling automatically: generated images carry a mark in the file itself, exports to Word, PDF, PowerPoint, and Excel include the information in the file properties, and the service tells you when your part of the responsibility begins, for example when publishing. So the law isn’t a reason to wait with AI, but a good reason to choose tools that do their part of the job.

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Your employees are already using AI, often in private accounts where no one sees what gets pasted in. EuroWork gives the same AI help in one place where you are in control: sensitive data is caught before it is sent, processing stays in the EU, every answer shows its price and management sets the rules.

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