Complying with the EU AI Act

TL;DR

This paper analyzes the EU AI Act, categorizes its provisions, develops a questionnaire to assess organizational compliance, and examines how organizational characteristics influence compliance challenges.

Contribution

It introduces a categorization framework for the EU AI Act and a questionnaire tool to quantitatively assess compliance challenges across organizations.

Findings

Organizations face diverse compliance challenges based on their category and size.

The questionnaire reveals prevalent concerns about specific AI Act provisions.

There is significant variation in compliance levels among different sectors.

Abstract

The EU AI Act is the proposed EU legislation concerning AI systems. This paper identifies several categories of the AI Act. Based on this categorization, a questionnaire is developed that serves as a tool to offer insights by creating quantitative data. Analysis of the data shows various challenges for organizations in different compliance categories. The influence of organization characteristics, such as size and sector, is examined to determine the impact on compliance. The paper will also share qualitative data on which questions were prevalent among respondents, both on the content of the AI Act as the application. The paper concludes by stating that there is still room for improvement in terms of compliance with the AIA and refers to a related project that examines a solution to help these organizations.