1 minute watch | December.18.2025
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Julia Apostle offers a practical view of the EU AI Act’s AI literacy obligations and the most important steps to stay compliant.
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Julia Apostle: The EU AI Act took effect last August, but its provisions have started to come into effect from February of this year. One of those obligations is called the AI literacy obligation, and it applies both to providers and users of AI systems and even importers and distributors.
The EU AI Act doesn't actually contain any exemptions or derogations in relation to startups and small companies. However, throughout the Act, there is a general recognition, often explicit, that the obligations should be imposed on SMEs and startups in a lighter way.
So I think it's really important the companies be aware of what systems they're using. And we're working with a lot of clients right now to map their systems, to identify what systems do I have in my company, what systems do I want to acquire into my company, how would they be classified under the AI Act, potentially prohibited, maybe high risk, and then actually starting to look at their vendor agreements. That is probably the heaviest work stream for most companies, unless they are actually developing those systems themselves.