EU AI Act
The European regulation that classifies AI systems by risk and assigns obligations to providers and deployers.
What is EU AI Act?
The EU AI Act entered into force in 2024 with staged applicability. It introduces prohibited practices, high-risk requirements, GPAI obligations, transparency duties, and post-market monitoring. Architecture choices — where data lives, what is logged, how human oversight is enforced — largely determine cost of compliance. See EU AI Act-Ready Architecture and VDF AI Compliance.
Why it matters for on-premise & regulated AI
The EU AI Act makes deployers — not just vendors — responsible for high-risk AI systems: risk management, logging, human oversight, and technical documentation. On-premise deployment simplifies several obligations at once, because the logs, model versions, and oversight mechanisms regulators ask about are generated and retained on infrastructure you control. With enforcement phasing in through 2026–2027, deployment architecture has become a compliance decision, not just an IT one.
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