The skills and understanding that let people deploy and use AI systems responsibly and recognize their opportunities and risks.
The EU AI Act requires providers and deployers to ensure their staff and others operating AI systems have a sufficient level of AI literacy. This means people understand what a system does, its limits, and how to use its outputs appropriately.
In practice this is a training and awareness obligation, scaled to the role and the risk of the systems involved, and a natural extension of existing security awareness programs.
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