AI Act for the Professional Services Sector

Key Requirements

• Mandatory AI literacy for involved personnel (Art. 4, effective Aug 2, 2025)
• Prohibition of manipulative AI practices, social scoring, mass biometric surveillance (Art. 5, effective Feb 2, 2025)
• AI system risk classification: unacceptable, high, limited, minimal (Art. 6)
• Mandatory conformity assessment for high-risk AI systems (Art. 43)
• Transparency obligations: inform users when interacting with AI, label deepfakes (Art. 50)
• Mandatory human oversight with override capability for high-risk systems (Art. 14)
• Technical documentation, logging, registration in EU database (Art. 11-12, Art. 49)
• Reporting serious incidents to supervisory authorities (Art. 73)