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Blog post: Making AI visible: Fourth meeting of the AI Act Correspondents Network

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European Data Protection Supervisor Wojciech Wiewiórowski has published a blog post reflecting on the fourth meeting of the AI Act Correspondents Network, focusing on how the AI Act's transparency obligations are being put into practice now that most of them apply.

Why this matters: Transparency requirements are the part of the AI Act that most directly affects ordinary people. They are supposed to tell you when you are interacting with an AI system and what it is doing. Whether those rules work in practice depends almost entirely on how institutions implement them. Meetings like this one are where that gets decided, quietly, before most people know the rules even exist.

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