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AI governance & regulation
When systems start making decisions. Product design, model behaviour and human accountability become one operating question.
AI Act · GPAI · Product · Employment
Selected thinking
Read the rulebook
Read the rulebook
before it reads you.
Original analysis for legal, product and leadership teams working through Europe's digital rules in real time.
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ManifestoEN
The Accountability Gap
Rules can be delayed. Accountability cannot. Why Europe's digital rulebook is the accountability infrastructure of the agent economy.
AI ActEN
The relief is premature: what 2 August actually switches on
The high-risk deadlines moved. Transparency duties, GPAI enforcement and the Hungarian regime did not.
CyberENOne framework, finally: the EU's cyber + AI action plan
Cyber and AI are one governance problem. The Commission has finally started treating them that way.
The premise
Rules can be delayed.
Rules can be delayed.
Accountability cannot.
Deadlines move. Liability, contracts, regulators and courts do not disappear with them.
The operating thesis
One accountability layer.
One accountability layer.
Not five compliance programmes.
The AI Act, GDPR, NIS2, DORA and the Data Act do not arrive in separate organisations. They meet in the same systems, vendors, decisions and contracts. The strongest governance treats them accordingly.
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legislative items
one operating reality
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Deadlines move. Exposure does not.
Liability, contracts, regulators and courts do not pause when a legislative deadline moves.
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One layer, not five programmes.
The same systems, vendors and decisions sit underneath the acronyms. Governance should follow the reality.
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Evidence beats documentation.
Ownership, process and audit trails are what regulators, courts and counterparties actually test.
A live case
It's not harmless.It's an incident.
A routine Tuesday becomes an unlogged data and employment incident in six messages. The colleague meant well. The chatbot did its job. That is exactly the problem.
Who answers? Read the Accountability Gap →The stage version is a live lawyer-developer demonstration with Zsombor Nagy: governed workspace against public chatbot, side by side.
Incident
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can you summarize this for the board? need it in 10 mins▤ Q2_salaries_all_staff.xlsx
Done! The file covers 214 employees. Average gross salary: €4,120; highest band: management (names and amounts listed below)…
❯ personal data of 214 employees just left the company
great. now draft a termination letter for T., 52, long sick leave, performance concerns
Here's a firm but compassionate draft you can send today. I've referenced the health-related absences as grounds…
❯ health data · automated assessment of an employee
❯ no legal basis · no DPA · no log · no owner
Speaking · teaching · live formats
What I advise by day,
What I advise by day,
I put under pressure on stage.
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Clear boundaries
A personal journal.
A personal journal.
A separate professional route.
Independent commentary · no legal instructions through DRKJ
Professional context
Legal work remains with the firm
Client mandates run through my professional practice. The contact page explains that route, the usual professional checks and the boundary between this journal and legal instructions.
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