EU AI Act

Statute European Union · 2024

The EU Artificial Intelligence Act is the world's first comprehensive, horizontal regulation of artificial intelligence — a risk-tiered regime that bans some practices outright, imposes conformity assessment, technical documentation, logging, transparency and human-oversight duties on high-risk systems, and layers separate obligations on general-purpose AI models. Unlike open banking, it compels no API: it regulates what an AI system may do and what its provider must be able to prove, which is why its footprint shows up in an API catalog as consent, audit, logging and disclosure surfaces rather than as endpoints.

Horizontal regime. It binds companies by what they do with data, software or customers, not by the sector they sit in. The industries below are where it creates specific, additional duties — not the limit of who has to comply.

Countries

Where this binds. Each links to the providers apis.io has catalogued there.

Regions

Industries

Each links to that industry as a scored cohort — so the question "how ready is this sector for the regime that governs it?" becomes one you can actually look at.

Implemented by these standards

A regulation is the law; a standard is the machine-readable contract that satisfies it. Almost every regime in this catalog restricts an interface rather than requiring one — where a standard exists, it is the part a provider can actually publish.