EU AI Act
The European Union's comprehensive artificial intelligence regulation (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, in force since August 2024, with phased application through 2026 and beyond), which prohibits, with narrow law-enforcement exceptions, real-time remote biometric identification in publicly accessible spaces and classifies related biometric systems as high-risk or prohibited.
Defined in 5 GAGE programs, which carry 5 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in Engineering Judgment and Professional Formation.
How each discipline defines it
The same term does different work depending on who is using it. These are the definitions as each program teaches them, unedited.
The European Union's comprehensive artificial intelligence regulation (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, in force since August 2024, with phased application through 2026 and beyond), which prohibits, with narrow law-enforcement exceptions, real-time remote biometric identification in publicly accessible spaces and classifies related biometric systems as high-risk or prohibited.
The European Union's comprehensive AI law (2024), risk-tiered, with built-in relief for SMEs; it can reach a non-EU business whose AI is placed on the EU market or whose output is used in the EU, but it does not reach a US-domestic business with no EU presence or EU-data processing.
The European Union's comprehensive, risk-tiered AI law (Regulation 2024/1689). It sorts AI into unacceptable, high, limited, and minimal risk, and attaches duties to each tier, with penalties up to 35 million euros or 7 percent of global turnover for banned uses.
Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, the European Union's horizontal law on artificial intelligence, in force since 1 August 2024. It is the source of the FRIA obligation in Article 27 and of the high-risk classification in Annex III.
Regulation 2024/1689, the European Union's binding, risk-tiered legal framework for AI systems placed on the EU market or affecting people in the EU, in force since August 1, 2024, with phased obligations through 2028.
Where it is taught
The exact lessons this term appears in. The first module of every program is free with a free account.
- SMB-Specific Compliance Considerations · Bonus: SMB AI Adoption Path, Certified AI Practitioner: Workplace Foundations
- The DPIA and FRIA, run jointly: one assessment, two regimes, no duplicate work · Evidence Engineering, Certified AI Governance Professional (CAIGP)
- The Big Four Frameworks: EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, OECD Principles · Foundations of AI for Lobbyists, The AI Lobbyist: Certified AI Policy Strategist
- Regulatory Compliance Navigator · Governance and Responsible AI, Certified AI Transformation Professional (CATP)
- Privacy when a robot's sensors record real spaces · Responsible Physical AI in Practice, Engineering Judgment and Professional Formation
Where it shows up at work
A definition is where EU AI Act starts. The lessons above teach it inside the competencies below, which are what job descriptions ask for and what the GAGE credential records. Every link here is drawn from the same careers map that builds a role's readiness check.
Classifies a system by role and risk tier, knows which obligations bind on which date after the Digital Omnibus, and what evidence conformity needs.
2 lessons on this page teach it as a primary outcome.
Builds minimization, purpose limitation, de-identification, consent and retention into an AI system before launch, with tests that prove it.
2 lessons on this page teach it as a primary outcome.
Compares the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001 and sector rules by intent and control objective, and says where they do not overlap.
One lesson on this page teach it as a primary outcome.
Roles that hire for it
Each role page shows the full competency set, what the seat decides, and a readiness check against your own evidence.
- Senior AI Compliance Analystneeds it at depth
- AI Compliance Managerneeds it at depth · 2 open postings this week
- AI Compliance Specialistneeds working knowledge · 1 open posting this week
- Chief Privacy Officer, AI privacy editionneeds it at depth
- AI Regulatory Counselneeds it at depth · 14 open postings this week
- Compliance Analystneeds working knowledge · 2 open postings this week
How job descriptions say it
Postings rarely use the textbook word. These are the phrases the careers map reads as asking for the competencies above.
Where the frameworks place it: Regulation (EU) 2024/1689; Regulation (EU) 2026/1744; ISO/IEC 27701; GDPR Article 25.
One interview question about it
Classify a specific AI system under the EU AI Act and name the obligations that follow, including what applies now and what is deferred.
Asked of candidates for eu ai act obligations and timelines. Answering it in your own words is exactly how a GAGE topic is passed, and the credential records the pass where an employer can check it.
If you come from another field
Some backgrounds already carry this competency, and the readiness check gives credit for it.
- A law degree (JD, LLB or LLM), no AI work yet carries it as a claim to back up: The EU AI Act reads like the statutes you were trained on; the content is new, the method is not.
Terms it appears with
Not an alphabetical neighbourhood: these are the terms taught in the same lessons, ranked by how often they appear together.