The first in a multi-part series on the EU AI Act, this article covers its scope and provides details on prohibited AI systems. The EU AI Act applies to providers of AI systems placed on the EU market, as well as organizations in the EU that use an AI system. The AI Act enforces a complete ban on the use of certain AI systems, including social credit systems, untargeted scraping of facial images, and emotion-recognition systems.

California Imposes Landmark Safety and Transparency Rules on Frontier AI Labs
One false start and one year later, California has enacted an artificial intelligence safety and transparency law that is the


