What is EU AI Act?

Explained

The EU AI Act is Europe's regulatory framework for AI. It classifies systems by risk level (unacceptable, high, limited, minimal) and imposes requirements for transparency, human oversight, and documentation. Thinkia helps organizations achieve compliance.

Decision guides that use this term

• Sovereign or on-prem AI vs cloud AI APIs: where should your models run?
• EU AI Act provider vs deployer: which role are you, and what does each one owe?
• Centralised vs federated AI governance: who should decide what in your organisation?
• Human in the loop vs autonomous agents: how much should an AI agent decide on its own?

Related terms

• Bias Distortion in data or model that produces unfair or inaccurate results.
• Constitutional AI Training approach that aligns models with explicit rules and self-critique.
• Ethical AI AI designed and deployed with ethical principles (transparency, fairness, privacy).
• Explainability Ability to explain how a model reaches a conclusion (Explainable AI, XAI).
• Guardrails Runtime constraints and policies that keep LLM outputs safe and on-brand.
• Human-in-the-Loop Design where humans supervise or correct AI decisions.