AI Compliance Essentials: EU AI Act, DPDP & the Literacy Obligation

Enforcement began August 2026. Risk tiers, what Article 4 literacy actually requires, transparency duties, India's DPDP and deepfake framework, and a runnable programme.

AI compliance stopped being a future concern on a specific set of dates. The EU AI Act became broadly applicable on 2 August 2026, bringing transparency obligations, enforcement powers over general-purpose AI and the full penalty regime (up to €35 million or 7% of turnover for prohibited practices), while the Article 4 AI-literacy obligation has applied since February 2025 with supervision from August 2026. It reaches Indian companies too, because scope follows where output is used. This course teaches you to tier your own AI uses (most organisations find an unrecognised high-risk use in recruitment), satisfy the literacy duty with evidence rather than an email, implement disclosure, and navigate India's DPDP Act and February 2026 deepfake framework. It makes you an informed client for legal advice, not a substitute for it.

What you'll learn

• Know which obligations are already in force and which dates bite when
• Tier your AI uses across prohibited, high-risk, transparency and minimal
• Satisfy the Article 4 literacy obligation with defensible evidence
• Implement chatbot and synthetic-content disclosure correctly
• Handle personal data under DPDP and sector regulator expectations
• Run an eight-step compliance programme without a compliance department

Course content

1. 1. Why this became urgent in August 2026 (15 min)
2. 2. The risk tiers, and where you sit (15 min)
3. 3. The AI literacy obligation, and what satisfies it (15 min)
4. 4. Transparency and disclosure duties (15 min)
5. 5. DPDP, sector rules, and the Indian picture (15 min)
6. 6. A compliance programme you can actually run (15 min)

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