The AI Act was approved on 21 May by the Council and will enter into force 20 days after its official publication. The main objective is to establish a regulatory framework for Artificial Intelligence within the European Union, promoting its use and development and guaranteeing specific protections for people in terms of health, safety and fundamental rights.
Aspects include: a notion of what AI systems are, their scope of application, a list of prohibited practices, a classification of risk-based AI systems, a list of high-risk AI systems and their requirements and obligations on the part of providers and companies using them, transparency obligations for certain systems, the incorporation of general-purpose AI models, and a sanctions regime.