EU AI Act · two questions

Your role and the risk level decide what applies

Provider you build it and sell it under your name
Deployer you use it in your work
Banned
From 2 Feb 2025
Selling an HR tool that reads employees' emotions on video calls
Not allowed
Using that tool on your own staff
Not allowed
High-risk
From 2 Dec 2027
A feature in your product that ranks job applicants
Full set: risk management, documentation, quality system, conformity check
A CV screening tool you bought
Follow the instructions, oversee it, keep logs, tell people
Limited risk
Transparency, from 2 Aug 2026
A chatbot or text generator in your product
Say it is AI, mark generated content
Publishing an AI-made video of a real person
Label it as AI-generated
Minimal risk
Everything else
A spam filter in your product
AI literacy only
Staff drafting emails with ChatGPT
AI literacy only