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Decoding the AI Act: A first look at the Commission’s "high-risk" draft guidelines
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The European Commission just dropped its highly anticipated first set of draft guidelines on high-risk AI classification under the AI Act—all 150 pages of them. Published for stakeholder consultation on May 19th, 2026, this document is the closest thing we have to a compliance manual for navigating Article 6 and Annex III of the Act.
In this episode of the Privacy Partnership Podcast, Robert Bateman digs into the details to explain what the Commission considers "high-risk," how the exemption filters actually work, and why some common loopholes that tech companies might hope…
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