EU AI Act: Risk Classification & Compliance
The EU AI Act (Regulation 2024/1689) is the world's first comprehensive horizontal regulation of artificial intelligence — and its compliance deadlines are no longer theoretical. The bans on unacceptable-risk AI systems hit in February 2025, and the big one (high-risk AI obligations) arrives in August 2026.
Here's what most people miss: the AI Act doesn't regulate AI technology — it regulates what you do with it. The same AI model can be treated four different ways depending on how it's deployed. That distinction is the whole game.