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European Union AI Act

Innovate with AI while complying with the EU AI Act

Microsoft is committed to building products and solutions that comply with the EU AI Act and helping our customers use AI compliantly. We’re working closely with European policymakers to shape effective implementation practices.
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Frequently asked questions

  • The EU AI Act is a comprehensive new law that seeks to address potential risks to health, safety, and fundamental rights from the development and use of artificial intelligence technologies. It adopts a risk-based approach to regulate AI systems and models and is intentionally phased over several years to ensure regulated entities have adequate time to meet requirements. The first provisions come into effect February 2025, after which there are staggered dates for different phases of the AI Act.
  • We’ve long embraced responsible AI and are aligning our policies with the EU AI Act. We have dedicated working groups combining AI governance, engineering, legal, and public policy experts working on our compliance with the AI Act’s final requirements. We’ve also actively updated contracts to prevent improper use of our AI systems, and are revising internal policies to explicitly prohibit offering our AI technologies for banned applications and reviewing our existing products and services to identify any needed mitigations.
  • Microsoft has incorporated “prohibited practices” into our internal, company-wide Restricted Use Policy. The EU AI Act outlines requirements for how AI systems and models are built, deployed, and marketed to or within the European market. We will comply with the requirements while adhering to our Restricted Use Policy, which identifies AI systems that are not permissible to develop, deploy, or market. Our employees must consult this policy prior to developing or deploying an AI system.

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