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canonicalName: "EU Artificial Intelligence Act"
aliases: ["AI Act", "EU AI Act"]
source_timestamps: ["§ How to Use Explainable AI Responsibly"]
tags: ["regulation", "european-union"]
related: ["concept-checkbox-transparency", "claim-transparency-mandates-insufficient", "entity-eu-gdpr"]
sources: ["adoption"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-adoption"
originDay: 9
articleStem: "hbr-edu-37-employees-not-questioning-ai"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/06/employees-arent-questioning-ai-advice-enough"
sourceTitle: "Employees Aren’t Questioning AI Advice Enough"
---
# European Union Artificial Intelligence Act

**Type:** Other (regulation) · **Canonical name:** EU Artificial Intelligence Act · **Aliases:** AI Act, EU AI Act

The first comprehensive horizontal AI regulation in the EU, with final text approved in **2024**. It mandates **risk management, transparency, human oversight, and documentation for high-risk AI systems**, including requirements that users and operators receive information sufficient to understand system functioning and use it appropriately. In the source it is presented as legislation aiming to mitigate the risks of black-box AI systems (see [[concept-checkbox-transparency]], [[claim-transparency-mandates-insufficient]]).

**Canonical reference (enrichment):** Official EU legislative page via EUR-Lex (Regulation on Artificial Intelligence).

**Counter-perspective (enrichment):** The AI Act's human-oversight requirements are explicitly concerned with ensuring explanations and controls are *meaningfully used*, not merely displayed — so it is a partial *counter* to checkbox transparency, even if implementation may still devolve into formal compliance.