EU AI Act becomes applicable Aug 2: an engineering checklist

16 days ago

The EU AI Act becomes generally applicable on August 2, 2026, with key dates for prohibited practices, general-purpose AI obligations, and high-risk systems.
High-risk AI systems in categories like hiring and credit scoring face obligations including classification, risk management, data governance, and documentation.
Conformity engineering treats regulatory compliance as a system property, enforced through pipelines, rather than as a post-facto report.
Key practices include versioned classification, continuous risk management via code, dataset lineage tracking, and generating technical documentation automatically.
Obligations require audit logging, user instructions, human oversight features, accuracy testing, and post-market monitoring with incident reporting.
Penalties for non-compliance can reach up to €35M or 7% of global turnover, similar to GDPR, prompting engineering involvement in compliance planning.
Initial steps involve classifying the system, assessing gaps against a checklist, and addressing weaknesses through automated pipelines and evidence generation.

Hasty Briefsbeta