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AI governance, safety and ethics
How artificial intelligence is governed: national and international rules, safety and the risks of frontier models, deepfakes, copyright, bias, liability and autonomous weapons. Prelims has asked about the AI Action Summit in Paris.
UPSC has asked
- Prelims 2025: the AI Action Summit held in Paris
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The European Union's AI Act
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The Act's method is risk based regulation: the duties on a system scale with the harm a use could do. A ban stands at one end of that scale and a labelling duty near the other.
- The AI Act became applicable on 2 August 2026, the first comprehensive artificial intelligence law anywhere.
- It had been in force since August 2024, so its duties bite two years on.
- An enforcement team was launched the same day.
- Compliance deadlines for standalone high risk systems were pushed back to December 2027.
- Content generated by artificial intelligence must be labelled or watermarked under the Act's transparency duties.
- Anthropic has said it will embed machine readable watermarks in Claude's text and files to meet that duty.
Unacceptable risk
- Some uses of artificial intelligence are banned outright
High risk
- A system needs a conformity assessment before it reaches the market
Limited risk
- Lighter checks apply
What changed
Background reading: The Hindu, 1 Aug 2026: EU AI Act becomes applicable (opens in a new tab)