AI Agents Under EU Law
AI agents - i.e. AI systems that autonomously plan, invoke external tools, and execute multi-step action chains with reduced human involvement - are being deployed at scale across enterprise functions ranging from customer service and recruitment to clinical decision support and critical infrastructure management. The EU AI Act (Regulation 2024/1689) regulates these systems through a risk-based framework, but it does not operate in isolation: providers face simultaneous obligations under the GDPR, the Cyber Resilience Act, the Digital Services Act, the Data Act, the Data Governance Act, sector-specific legislation, the NIS2 Directive, and the revised Product Liability Directive. This pape...
| Authors | Luca Nannini, Adam Leon Smith, Michele Joshua Maggini et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CY |
| Published | 6 April 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 6 April 2026 |
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