The EU AI Act is here, and it applies to you whether you're in Europe or not. This is the friendly, plain-English walkthrough you've been waiting for.
Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 runs to hundreds of pages of legal text across 24 languages. You don't have time for that. You need to know what the Act actually says, who it applies to, what risk tier your AI system falls into, and what you need to do before the next compliance deadline. This book is that guide, written for smart people who are new to EU regulation, not for lawyers who already speak the dialect.
Inside this book, you'll learn how to:
• Tell whether the Act applies to your organisation, even if you're based outside the EU
• Classify any AI system into the four risk tiers using a 10-step decision tree
• Navigate the eight prohibited practices that have been binding since February 2025
• Build the technical documentation, logging, and human oversight a high-risk system needs
• Understand the General-Purpose AI regime, including the systemic-risk tier for frontier models
• Run a deployer's day-to-day compliance checklist without drowning in paperwork
• See how the Act interacts with GDPR, the Digital Services Act, and product-safety law
Written in the friendly, second-person voice of the Plain-English Guide series, this book takes you from "I have no idea where to start" to "I've got this" in 26 short chapters, complete with worked examples, quick tips, heads-ups, key takeaways, a full glossary, and a Quick Reference appendix you'll actually use.
Whether you're a product lead deciding if your AI can ship into Europe, a compliance officer building a programme from scratch, an engineer who wants to know what the law means for how you train models, or a citizen who simply wants to understand what is being voted on in your name, this book gives you a clear, friendly path through Europe's landmark AI law.
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