European UnionAI Act, Article 4 (AI literacy)
Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Article 4
In force since .
An AI governance rule binding public and private bodies.
- Criminal exposure
- No
- Private right of action
- No
- How the hook was established
- express
- What makes it apply
- Market targeting, Operator establishment, Place of effect
- Obligation class
- Governance
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Take measures to support the development of AI literacy among your staff and other people who operate or use AI systems on your behalf, if you are a provider or deployer of an AI system, taking into account their technical knowledge, experience, education and training, the context the AI systems are to be used in, and the persons or groups of persons the AI systems are to be used on.
- This duty does not require you to guarantee any specific level of AI literacy for any individual.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text. Also read by: AI Literacy - Questions & Answers, the European Commission's reading of Article 4 of the AI Act (guidance from the European Commission, issued ); European Commission (guidance, recorded ).
In the frameworks
- NIST AI RMF
- GOVERN 2.2The organization’s personnel and partners receive AI risk management training to enable them to perform their duties and responsibilities consistent with related policies, procedures, and agreements.
Our reading of where this law's duties sit in each framework. It never says that running a control meets the law. How we read a framework against the law
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
National market surveillance authorities, at least one designated by each Member State under Article 70(1); the AI Office for an AI system within its exclusive competence under Article 75(1); the European Data Protection Supervisor for Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies within the Regulation's scope, except the Court of Justice acting in its judicial capacity (Article 74(9)).
Settledness
- As of
- Guidance link
- https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/faqs/ai-literacy-questions-answers
- Guidance body
- European Commission
- Open questions
- Is a client of a provider or deployer a person 'dealing with the operation and use of AI systems on their behalf' under Article 4(1), when the Commission's questions and answers list a client among the examples but also describe such persons as 'broadly under the organisational remit'?
- What shows that a provider or deployer has 'supported the development' of AI literacy under Article 4(1), when the Commission says the Article does not require measuring staff knowledge or guaranteeing a specific level of AI literacy of any individual?
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Article 4 requires providers and deployers to take measures to support AI literacy among staff and other persons operating or using AI systems on their behalf. It states no duty to create, keep, or later produce a log or record of that support.
- Kind
- None
- As of
Also on the record
EEA status
- Status
- Pending
- Source link
- https://www.efta.int/eea-lex/32024r1689
What this law does
Providers and deployers of AI systems must take measures to support the development of AI literacy of their staff and other persons who operate or use AI systems on their behalf, taking into account their technical knowledge, experience, education, training, and the context of use, and considering the persons or groups the AI systems are used on.
The Digital Omnibus on AI (Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, in force since ) replaced this Article: the original text required providers and deployers to ensure, to their best extent, a sufficient level of AI literacy; the current text asks them only to support its development and states expressly that it does not require guaranteeing any specific level of AI literacy of any individual.
The Commission and Member States must support and facilitate providers' and deployers' efforts, in particular for SMEs, including by publishing practical compliance examples, and the European Artificial Intelligence Board must adopt recommendations setting common objectives for the promotion of AI literacy.
Article 113, third paragraph, point (a), places this Article in Chapter I, which applies from ; the Digital Omnibus's amendment of that point carves out an exception only for the new Article 5(1), first subparagraph, points (ba) and (bb), and Article 5(1a) and (1b), so Article 4's own application date is unchanged.
Guidance on this law
How the bodies that enforce this law read it. Guidance binds nobody by itself, so LexLint never raises a finding from it; the duty is this law's.
- AI Literacy - Questions & Answers, the European Commission's reading of Article 4 of the AI Act, the European Commission
When LexLint raises it
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