Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Artificial Intelligence Act)
European Parliament and Council. (2024). Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Artificial Intelligence Act). Official Journal of the European Union.
The world’s first comprehensive AI law classifies education as a high-risk domain: emotion recognition in classrooms banned outright; admissions and assessment systems face conformity duties.
Compliance is now a governance function, not an IT preference — every institutional AI policy is also a legal document in waiting.
The Act demands institutional legibility \u2014 the same theme as our Academic Database Recognition 2026, which shows new institutions must climb swot\u2192Wikidata\u2192ROR\u2192OpenAlex to be machine-readable to academia; the AI Act now makes them machine-auditable by law.