the EU’s AI Act, first proposed in 2021. As of this writing in 2023, the act is going through the lengthy process of becoming European law. If it is enacted, AI research and deployment will be categorized on a risk-based scale. Technologies with “unacceptable risk” of causing direct harm will be prohibited. Where AI affects fundamental human rights or critical systems like basic infrastructure, public transport, health, or welfare, it will get classed as “high risk,”
