The EU AI Act Is Now in Force. Here Is What African Countries Can Learn From It
The first comprehensive AI law is now operating. Its risk-tiered structure is widely copied — including the parts that have not worked.
Legislation, executive orders, international frameworks and national AI strategies. The EU AI Act, US executive actions, the AU governance frameworks and African national policies, covered with equal seriousness.
The first comprehensive AI law is now operating. Its risk-tiered structure is widely copied — including the parts that have not worked.
Jurisdictions differ on the detail and agree on the structure: obligations scale with what the system is used for, not with how it was built.
There are two separate legal arguments running, they have different answers, and conflating them is why the debate goes in circles.