The EU AI Act's risk tiers are now how Europe reads a system.
Unacceptable, high-risk, limited-risk, minimal. If you ship into the EU, the tier you land in decides most of what you have to document and disclose.
The practical read: most general-purpose systems land in limited-risk, which means transparency obligations rather than conformity assessments. What gets people in trouble is not the tier — it's pretending they're a tier lower than they actually are. The station's advice: assume the stricter reading and document the one you picked.
Source · European Commission ↗
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