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Next Deadline: August 2, 2025
General-Purpose AI Obligations
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AI systems deemed to pose unacceptable risks are banned outright. This includes social scoring by governments, real-time biometric identification in public spaces (with limited exceptions), manipulation of vulnerable groups, and AI systems that exploit subconscious behavior.
Providers of general-purpose AI models (like large language models) must comply with transparency requirements. This includes providing technical documentation, disclosing training data summaries, and implementing copyright compliance measures.
Transparency duties apply to anyone whose system interacts with people or produces synthetic content. Chatbots must disclose that they are AI, AI-generated or manipulated content must be machine-readably marked, deepfakes must be labelled, and emotion-recognition or biometric-categorisation systems must notify the people exposed to them. Penalties reach 15 million euros or 3% of worldwide annual turnover.
AI systems placed on the market before 2 August 2026 get a four-month grace period for the machine-readable marking duty in Article 50(2) only. Everything else in Article 50 already applies to them.
Compliance required for stand-alone high-risk AI systems used in critical sectors: healthcare, education, employment, law enforcement, migration, and critical infrastructure. Mandatory conformity assessments, risk management systems, and human oversight mechanisms must be in place. This date was moved from 2 August 2026 by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, published in the Official Journal on 24 July 2026.
AI that is a safety component of a product already covered by EU sectoral legislation must meet the high-risk requirements. Also moved by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, from 2 August 2027.
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