The Compliance Cliff of the EU AI Act

The Compliance Cliff of the EU AI Act

The EU AI Act's high-risk system obligations took effect this month, yet the harmonized standards that grant a presumption of conformity are not finished. This is not a minor administrative delay. It is a structural gap: legal requirements are enforceable, but...

The EU AI Act’s compliance cliff

On August 2, 2026, the European Union's AI Act reached a threshold that its architects likely did not anticipate: the high-risk system obligations became legally enforceable while the technical standards that grant presumption of conformity remained unfinished....