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Institutional Context: The EU AI Act

As unprecedented as the EU AI Act is, it remains fundamentally a piece of EU legislation. Much of it is borrowed from common EU frameworks, to the extent that it cannot be properly understood without this broader context.

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By Hadrien Pouget
Published on Dec 20, 2022
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Hadrien Pouget

Former Associate Fellow, Technology and International Affairs Program

Hadrien Pouget was an associate fellow in the Technology and International Affairs Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

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