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# European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act

The **European Union Artificial Intelligence Act (EU AI Act)** is a **risk-based regulatory framework** that, alongside **GDPR**, requires **human oversight in sensitive decisions** made by autonomous systems — to protect **fairness, transparency, and accountability**.

In this vault it is the regulatory anchor for the action [[action-track-human-verification]] (log which stages received human verification) and reinforces [[claim-corporate-accountability-for-ai]] (deployers bear compliance/documentation burden). It also frames the open question [[question-b2b-ai-regulatory-evolution]].

**Enrichment note:** The Act classifies certain legal/contract AI as **high-risk**, imposing obligations on **transparency, human oversight, documentation, and risk management** — and it places these burdens primarily on **deployers/users**, not solely vendors.

**Related:** [[action-track-human-verification]] · [[question-b2b-ai-regulatory-evolution]] · [[claim-corporate-accountability-for-ai]]