Europe’s Landmark Privacy Law Gives Companies a Playbook for AI

As EU AI Act provisions come into force, many corporate legal teams have chosen to lean into compliance regimes already tested by another EU law: the General Data Protection Regulation.

The two measures share a common core—including risk assessments, a focus on fundamental rights, and data governance—that has allowed many companies to prepare for the world’s first comprehensive AI regulation without having to overhaul their existing processes or deploy significant additional resources.

“The competencies and capabilities that companies developed to demonstrate compliance with the GDPR gave them many of the tools that they needed to demonstrate compliance ...