EU AI Act faces enforcement challenges

Significance

The Act takes a risk-based approach to AI regulation, with a focus on protecting the fundamental rights of EU citizens, and will be influential outside the EU as the first comprehensive AI legislation in a democratic jurisdiction.

Impacts

• Uneven capabilities at the member-state level will lead to ‘regulator shopping’ by some AI firms.
• The cost of regulatory compliance will not be trivial.
• The June European Parliament election will not affect the direction of the EU’s AI regulatory framework.