Europe Resets the Clock on the AI Act
Brussels has pushed its high-risk AI rules back to December 2027. For welfare offices, border agencies, police forces and schools, the extra sixteen months are a window to build governance, not a reprieve.
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Brussels, Westminster and the capitals: the AI Act in practice, digital sovereignty and AI inside European states.
Brussels has pushed its high-risk AI rules back to December 2027. For welfare offices, border agencies, police forces and schools, the extra sixteen months are a window to build governance, not a reprieve.
Albania presented its AI "minister" as a cure for corrupt procurement. Reports that the agency behind it is under investigation should prompt every government to ask what makes a public algorithm trustworthy in the first place.
Parliament's human rights committee wants a dedicated AI Bill; the government's cyber legislation leaves frontier developers to volunteer; and the Met is fixing facial recognition cameras in the West End. The UK is deploying first and legislating later.
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