EU AI Act guide outlines five-stage compliance process for general-purpose AI

The guide emphasizes that compliance is not a one-time check but a continuous process dependent on facts, jurisdiction, and evolving official guidance. It highlights a common failure mode where teams assume a voluntary technical standard applies uniformly, ignoring the specific legal boundaries of the EU framework. A worked example illustrates how a company integrating a general-purpose model into a hiring system must assess both downstream high-risk uses and supply-chain responsibilities.

The article advises that benefits should be measured through specific decisions and metrics, such as error rates or human-review time, rather than vague claims of intelligence. It stresses the importance of defining the operating population and consequences of wrong results before selecting controls, ensuring that evidence remains portable and testable across different models and environments.