EU AI Act

The EU AI Act is a 2024 regulation (phased in through 2026–2027) that classifies AI systems by risk and imposes obligations — from transparency notices for chatbots to full conformity assessments for high-risk uses like hiring and credit.

The Act ranks AI by use case: minimal risk (most chatbots, with disclosure), limited risk (deepfakes, with labels), high risk (hiring, credit, healthcare — full controls + audits), unacceptable risk (banned: social scoring, emotion recognition in workplaces). For AI workforce, hiring use cases are the obvious high-risk category — bias audits, transparency, human oversight all required.

Example

An AI Recruiter operating in the EU must publish a transparency notice, run pre-deployment bias testing, allow candidates to request human review, and keep audit-trail records for 6 months.

How OpenLabor uses it

OpenLabor's EU profile ships with the EU AI Act controls: transparency notices, audit logs, human-review workflows on high-risk roles.

Does the EU AI Act apply if I'm not in the EU?

If your AI processes data of EU residents or affects EU users, yes. Same extraterritorial reach as GDPR.

Are general-purpose chatbots affected?

Lightly — disclosure that the user is talking to AI. The heavy obligations land on high-risk use cases.

Related: gdpr, audit-trail, ai-recruiter, guardrails.

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