The most onerous obligations of the European AI Act come into force

Since 2 August, the European Commission has officially applied the strictest rules of its regulation on artificial intelligence: transparency, tagging of content and high-risk systems.

The European Commission, through its AI Office and national authorities, has started to enforce the most stringent provisions of the European AI Regulation. The high-risk systems listed in Annex III, the transparency requirements of Article 50, the conformity assessment and the CE marking are now covered.

In concrete terms, chatbots and conversational agents must now explicitly warn that they are not humans, hyperstructures (deepfakes) must be reported as such, and any content generated or modified by IA must bear a machine-readable mark facilitating its detection. Sanctions can rise to up to €35 million or 7% of the company's annual global turnover.