SocietyAI glossary
AI Act
The European regulation on artificial intelligence, the first major law in the world to govern AI, has been applied gradually since 2025. It classifies systems by risk level and imposes stricter obligations on the most powerful models.
In other words
The highway code arrived after the invention of the car: everyone can drive, but the rules tighten with the vehicle's power.
Alyriaz articles that mention it
- AI incidents: Washington makes reporting them mandatory
After incidents at Anthropic, including a false statement sent to the police, the White House makes reporting of AI incidents mandatory.
- AI customer service: how to talk to a human
Customer services are moving to AI. How to reach a human adviser when the assistant goes round in circles, and what recourse you have in France.
- Job interview with an AI: how to prepare for it
An AI that conducts job interviews has already questioned 500,000 candidates. How it works, how to prepare for it, and your rights in Europe.
- ChatGPT to watermark its texts, in Europe only
OpenAI is to slip an invisible watermark into ChatGPT's text, but only in Europe, to comply with the EU AI Act. What changes.
- AI in recruitment: generated applications, CVs sorted by machine
AI has transformed recruitment on both sides: candidates submit more applications, companies filter more automatically. We analyse this escalation and what it produces.
- Can we still stop AI? The open-source trap
Regulators worldwide are piling up AI laws. Europe's AI Act, America's Take It Down Act, national laws. But once a powerful model is available in open source, no law can make it disappear. How do you regulate something that has already escaped? A closer look at the new paradigm.