The EU AI Act: Regulatory Framework and Human-Oversight Obligations
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The European Commission's official overview of the AI Act: high-risk systems must implement human oversight mechanisms, maintain technical documentation, and pass conformity assessments before deployment, with governance obligations phasing in through 2026.
Why It Matters for AI Harness
The Act codifies human oversight as a deployment precondition, not an optional safeguard — the regulatory mirror of Humans Retain the Right to Intervene. The doctrine adds the architectural "how": oversight only counts if a human can technically inspect, interrupt, and override at every layer, which is the job of the Human Oversight, Audit & Traceability plane. Compliance language and architecture finally point at the same requirement.
Maps to the doctrine
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