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EU AI Act
The flagship risk-based regime; its phased obligations set the global template debate.
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High-risk obligations phase in; implementation detail, not the text, decides its real bite.
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EU AI Office The AI Office enforces the Act's GPAI rules.
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Regulation-oriented AI The EU AI Act is a key risk-based reference.
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Dual-Use AI Capabilities and Bioterrorism Risk Dual-use biological capability evaluations by frontier AI companies may become mandatory under high-risk AI provisions of the EU AI Act.
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GovAI-Pipe: Layered AI Governance Pipeline for e-Government GovAI-Pipe maps each of its four governance layers to specific provisions of the EU AI Act.
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Zero-Knowledge Proof Verification of AI Training Compute Zero-knowledge proof verification of training compute could provide technical enforcement primitives for AI governance frameworks like the EU AI Act.
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Responsible Open Source and Openness in AI Participatory research on responsible AI openness identifies tensions relevant to EU AI Act provisions on open-source model exemptions.
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EU AI Act timeline Aug 2025
EU AI Act obligations for general-purpose AI models applied from 2 Aug 2025; high-risk obligations under Annex III apply from 2 Aug 2026.
EU AI Act — implementation tracker → First binding treaty May 2026
The Council of Europe Framework Convention on AI — the first legally binding international AI treaty — opened for signature in Sep 2024; the EU ratified it on 15 May 2026.
Council of Europe → UN scientific panel Aug 2025
On 26 Aug 2025 the UN General Assembly created an Independent International Scientific Panel on AI (40 experts) and a Global Dialogue on AI Governance.
United Nations →