Definition
Transparency obligation
A requirement under the EU AI Act that AI systems interacting with humans must disclose their AI nature at the moment of contact. The Commission's guidance specifies that disclosure must be proactive and prominent — not buried in terms of service or settings menus. For agentic systems acting on a user's behalf, transparency extends to disclosing what the AI is doing and on whose authority, not just that an AI is involved.
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