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AI Act for the Working Programmer

Computers and Society 2024-08-06 v1 Artificial Intelligence Software Engineering

Abstract

The European AI Act is a new, legally binding instrument that will enforce certain requirements on the development and use of AI technology potentially affecting people in Europe. It can be expected that the stipulations of the Act, in turn, are going to affect the work of many software engineers, software testers, data engineers, and other professionals across the IT sector in Europe and beyond. The 113 articles, 180 recitals, and 13 annexes that make up the Act cover 144 pages. This paper aims at providing an aid for navigating the Act from the perspective of some professional in the software domain, termed "the working programmer", who feels the need to know about the stipulations of the Act.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2408.01449,
  title  = {AI Act for the Working Programmer},
  author = {Holger Hermanns and Anne Lauber-Rönsberg and Philip Meinel and Sarah Sterz and Hanwei Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.01449},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

25 pages, 2 figures; submitted to AISoLA 2024

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