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Europe’s AI Act: World’s First Guardrails or Just a Flashy Head Start?

Summary by GZERO Media
“We wanted to be first with a flashy AI law,” says Kai Zenner, digital policy advisor in the European Parliament. Speaking with GZERO's Tony Maciulis at the 2025 AI for Good Summit in Geneva, Zenner explains the ambitions and the complications behind Europe’s landmark AI Act. Designed to create horizontal rules for all AI systems, the legislation aims to set global standards for safety, transparency, and oversight. But some of Europe’s largest c…

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Many companies are worried about the EU AI Act. Those who use high-risk AI systems must order an AI agent. Penalties of up to 35 million euros or seven percent of global annual sales can otherwise be imposed. The problem: qualifying their own employees is time-consuming and cost-intensive. The contribution AI law brings millions of fines: External agents help appeared first on IT-I-Ko.

On the Old Continent, the same technology gives rise to as much hope as fears. While the AI profoundly transforms modern societies, the European Union has chosen to impose strict limits on it, brought about by an assumed desire to defend fundamental rights. By adopting the AI Act, it draws a red line around certain prohibited practices in the field of artificial intelligence, perceived as incompatible with individual freedom, equality of treatme…

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EURACTIV broke the news in Brussels, Belgium on Wednesday, July 9, 2025.
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