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EU AI Act Readiness Checker
Answer a short questionnaire to classify your AI system under the EU AI Act — out of scope, excluded, prohibited, high-risk, GPAI, transparency-only or minimal — then work a readiness checklist of the obligations that actually apply, each cited to its Article/Annex and application date.
100% client-side. Your answers stay in the browser; exports are generated locally. Educational readiness aid — not legal advice and not a conformity assessment. Citations are to Regulation (EU) 2024/1689; validate against the official text and your competent national authority before acting.
Quick reference — the AI Act in brief
- Scope (Art 2): applies to providers placing AI systems / GPAI models on the EU market, deployers established or located in the EU, and third-country providers/deployers whose output is used in the EU. Carve-outs: exclusively military/defence/national-security (2(3)), sole scientific R&D (2(6)), pre-market research/testing (2(8)), purely personal non-professional use (2(10)).
- Prohibited (Art 5): manipulative/deceptive techniques, exploitation of vulnerabilities, social scoring, crime-risk profiling, untargeted facial-image scraping, emotion inference at work/school, biometric categorisation of sensitive attributes, real-time remote biometric ID for law enforcement.
- High-risk (Art 6): safety component of an Annex I product needing third-party conformity assessment (6(1)), or an Annex III use (6(2)) unless the Art 6(3) derogation applies — but a system that profiles natural persons is always high-risk.
- GPAI (Art 51–55): general-purpose AI models; systemic-risk tier presumed above 10^25 FLOP of training compute (Art 51(2)).
- Transparency (Art 50): tell people they are dealing with an AI, mark synthetic content machine-readably, disclose emotion/biometric systems and deep fakes.
- Timeline (Art 113, as amended by the Digital Omnibus on AI): entry into force 1 Aug 2024; AI literacy + prohibitions from 2 Feb 2025; GPAI from 2 Aug 2025; general application & Art 50 transparency from 2 Aug 2026; Annex III stand-alone high-risk obligations deferred to 2 Dec 2027; Annex I safety-component high-risk deferred to 2 Aug 2028.