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As AI spread into daily life, one regulatory body moved first to draft sweeping rules sorting AI systems by how risky they are.
The European Union created the AI Act, finalized in 2024, widely recognized as the world's first comprehensive law regulating AI — its defining feature is a tiered risk system that sorts AI applications into categories from outright banned uses down to minimal-risk ones, with obligations scaling according to how much potential harm a given use case carries.
FIFA and the International Space Station are, respectively, a sports governing body and an orbiting research facility — neither has any role in drafting technology regulation, making them clearly implausible distractors here.
The EU took this approach once before with data privacy, and its GDPR rules ended up shaping how companies worldwide handle personal data even outside Europe simply because global firms found it easier to comply everywhere than maintain separate systems — whether the AI Act repeats that global-standard-setting effect is still an open question being watched closely.
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