EU AI Act

The EU AI Act is the European Union's comprehensive regulation of artificial intelligence — the world's first major horizontal AI law. Adopted in 2024 with phased enforcement through 2026 and beyond, the Act takes a risk-based approach. It prohibits certain practices outright (social scoring, manipulative AI, real-time biometric identification in public spaces with narrow exceptions), imposes strict requirements on high-risk AI systems (in domains like employment, education, credit, law enforcement, and critical infrastructure), creates transparency obligations for general-purpose AI and deepfakes, and applies lighter rules to limited and minimal-risk AI. Penalties reach 7% of global turnover for the worst violations. The Act applies to providers placing AI on the EU market and to AI operators using it in the EU — meaning many non-European companies fall within scope. AI governance, AI compliance, and AI risk management programs worldwide are restructuring to meet EU AI Act requirements as a baseline for responsible AI deployment in global enterprise AI portfolios.

Centralpoint Helps You Meet EU AI Act Requirements: Oxcyon's Centralpoint AI Governance Platform produces the documentation, audit logs, and human-oversight controls the Act requires — across OpenAI, Gemini, Llama, and embedded models. Centralpoint meters consumption, keeps prompts and skills on-prem, and embeds compliant chatbots into your portals via one JavaScript line.


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