Aoife White

I mean, high risk covers HR, covers banking, covers law firms.

And the current deadline is that they need to be ready for whatever AI applications they're using by August.

And a lot of them obviously were struggling with this and they wanted more time.

And so the European Commission suggested that they get another year and a half, which would be December next year.

And we saw some talks this week about whether they could get a deal on this.

And the talks are between the European Parliament and EU governments get together and they need to decide on what the European Commission has suggested.

And this week they couldn't decide.

And I've been reading all these very worried posts from lawyers going, well, you know, if they can't decide on the delay, you need to get ready for the high risk AI rules in August.

Yeah.

So that's, I think, quite scary if you're sitting in a law firm and you have been rolling out an AI solution and you thought you had a bit of time to get it ready and get it tested and get it compliant.

So I'm sure there's an air of panic everywhere that this is suddenly there, that is suddenly a realistic problem that you're going to have to deal with.

You're never rewarded by being an early adopter.

You know, if you are waiting till the last minute, sometimes it can work to your advantage.

I think that's what seems to have happened here, that the panic is coming because there are people who didn't think that this would happen.

I guess you see a lot of complaints on all sides about new rules coming in because they are burdensome.

And that's the whole...

point of the AI Act was to try and stitch together various things.

And it's not the first piece of regulation that digital companies have to deal with.

There's an awful lot out there.

The GDPR, there's whatever you've got for your sectors.