European Commission Publishes Q&A on AI Literacy

AI literacy – the Commission’s pointers on building your programme

The EU AI Act’s AI literacy obligation applied from 2 February 2025.  This applies to anyone doing anything with AI where there is some connection to the EU – to providers and deployers of any AI systems. The AI Act gives little away on what compliance would look like though. Fortunately, the Commission’s AI Office recently provided guidance in the form of Questions & Answers, setting out its expectations on AI literacy. The obligation Providers…

European Commission Publishes Q&A on AI Literacy

On May 7, 2025, the European Commission published a Q&A on the AI literacy obligation under Article 4 of the AI Act (the “Q&A”).  The Q&A builds upon the Commission’s guidance on AI literacy provided in its webinar in February 2025, covered in our earlier blog here.  Among other things, the Commission clarifies that the AI literacy obligation started to apply from February 2, 2025, but that the national market surveillance authorities tasked wit…