EU AI Act Compliance: Essential UK Checklist to Avoid Risk
Brexit did not put UK companies outside the EU AI Act. The Regulation follows the market and the output, so a Manchester software firm selling into Dublin, a recruitment platform screening candidates in Berlin and a consultancy whose model scores French loan applications are all inside its reach. This guide turns Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 into a working checklist for UK teams: the dates that already bite, how to inventory your systems, how to work out whether you are a provider or a deployer, how to classify risk against the prohibited and high-risk tiers, the twelve technical obligations that attach to a high-risk system, what to demand from general-purpose model vendors, and the penalties waiting at the end.
