On 22 January 2024, the final text of the AI Act became public (it was published by Luca Bertuzzi of Euractiv on its LinkedIn page). Although not yet formally and finally adopted and published in the Official Journal of the European Union, we understand that this text will not be subject anymore to (extensive) changes.
1. WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
The AI Act is a regulation (meaning it has direct effect in the Belgian legal order) laying down harmonised rules for the placing on the market, the putting into service and the use of artificial intelligence systems (‘AI systems’), including a.o. prohibition of certain AI systems, specific rules regarding high-risk AI systems and harmonised transparency rules.
2. WHAT IS AN AI SYSTEM?
An “AI system†is defined as “a machine-based system designed to operate with varying levels of autonomy and that may exhibit adaptiveness after deployment and that, for explicit or implicit objectives, infers, from the input it receives, how to generate outputs such as predictions, content, recommendations, or decisions that can influence physical or virtual environmentsâ€.
AI systems are deemed “high-risk†if: Read more
