Institutional Context: The EU AI Act

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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.

By Hadrien Pouget

Published on Dec 20, 2022

Future of Life Institute

About the Author

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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