The AI Act's words, one sentence each.

The know-how to use AI sensibly: what it is good at, where it goes wrong, and the risks. Expected of businesses using AI since February 2025.

Software that works out its own outputs, such as answers, images or decisions, from what you give it, instead of only following fixed rules.

Text, images, audio or video made or changed by AI. What you must disclose depends on the type.

Telling people they are talking to an AI, unless it is obvious. Required since 2 August 2026.

AI-made or AI-changed image, audio or video that looks like real people, things, places or events and could falsely seem real.

Anyone who uses an AI system in their work. A business with a website chatbot is a deployer.

A large AI model that can do many different tasks and is built into many products, like the models behind popular chatbots.

AI used in sensitive areas listed in the Act, or built into regulated products. Strict rules, now from December 2027 and August 2028.

A hidden, machine-detectable mark that makers of generative AI must put on what their tools produce.

The company that makes an AI system or model, or has it made, and offers it under its own name.