{"id":211026,"date":"2026-05-08T13:46:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T17:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/eu-ai-act-undergoes-significant-changes\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T13:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T17:50:10","slug":"eu-ai-act-undergoes-significant-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/eu-ai-act-undergoes-significant-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"EU AI Act Undergoes Significant Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsgr.com\/en\/insights\/eu-ai-act-undergoes-significant-changes.html\">EU AI Act Undergoes Significant Changes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsgr.com\/en\/insights\/eu-ai-act-undergoes-significant-changes.html\">https:\/\/www.wsgr.com\/en\/insights\/eu-ai-act-undergoes-significant-changes.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-08 13:46:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wsgr.com\">www.wsgr.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Delay in High-Risk AI System Obligations:<\/strong> The requirements for high-risk AI (HRAI) systems originally set to apply from August 2026 have been rescheduled to December 2027. HRAI systems covered by EU product safety legislation will have until August 2028.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Industrial AI Carve-Out:<\/strong> Industrial AI embedded in machinery will now follow EU machinery rules instead of the AI Act\u2019s HRAI regime, providing more flexibility for these systems.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Transparency Obligations Postponed:<\/strong> The obligation to mark AI-generated content will now apply from December 2026, extending the initial effective date by four months.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>New Prohibitions on Harmful Content:<\/strong> The amended AI Act will include two more categories of prohibited AI systems: those generating non-consensual sexualized deepfakes and those creating child sexual abuse material. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Maintained Registration Obligation:<\/strong> The obligation to register high-risk AI systems remains in place, regardless of exemptions.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Narrowing the Definition of Safety Components:<\/strong> For safety-critical applications, the definition of \u201csafety component\u201d has been narrowed to exclude AI systems whose failure or malfunction does not pose health or safety risks.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Broader Oversight Powers:<\/strong> The EU Commission\u2019s AI Office will extend its oversight to AI systems built on general-purpose AI models, those in large online platforms, and large search engines.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Use of Sensitive Data:<\/strong> The deal allows sensitive data, such as race and ethnicity, to be used strictly as necessary for bias detection and correction across all AI systems, not just high-risk ones.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EU AI Act Undergoes Significant Changes https:\/\/www.wsgr.com\/en\/insights\/eu-ai-act-undergoes-significant-changes.html Publish Date: 2026-05-08 13:46:00 Source Domain: www.wsgr.com Delay&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.wsgr.com\/a\/web\/adqUPgj69sHwdeb28Nabsb\/3z2Nu2\/og-0122.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211029,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211026\/revisions\/211029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}