EU AI Act

The EU AI Act is the European Union’s first comprehensive AI regulation. It sorts AI systems into risk classes — from minimal risk to ‘prohibited’ — and ties the duties to that classification. High-risk systems face the strictest requirements.

A central tranche of the duties for high-risk AI takes effect from 2 August 2026. These include risk management, technical documentation, logging, human oversight and transparency. High-risk typically covers systems that decide about people — such as in hiring, credit or access.

Many of these duties come down to evidence: you must be able to show who used which model, when and with what data. A sovereign operating layer produces exactly this audit trail automatically. (Not legal advice.)