Own project · 2026
AI literacy material built around Article 4 of the EU AI Act: training sized to actual use, a comprehension test, named certificates and a compliance dossier.
Article 4 of the EU AI Act concerns AI literacy: organisations using AI have to see to it that their people can use it properly. A whole market appeared around that sentence almost immediately, much of it selling training by waving fines the article does not provide for.
I built the material to find out what an honest answer looks like: what actually has to exist for an organisation to show it has done something real.
Sizing the training to each organisation's real use rather than producing one course for everyone. The rule asks for proportionality, and a generic course evidences nothing — a ten-person company that uses one assistant for drafting does not need what a thousand-person company with models in its products needs.
Fear marketing. The material was built explicitly not to do it: no invented penalties, no implied certification that does not exist, and a plain statement that there is no official EU AI Act training certificate for anyone to sell.
The Digital Omnibus, Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, softened Article 4 — from guaranteeing a level of AI literacy to adopting measures to foster its development. The material I had published, and several articles with it, became outdated and in places alarmist.
I corrected them in public, with a dated note visible at the top of every affected piece, rather than editing quietly or letting them run.
What it taught me. This correction is the part of the project I would actually put on a CV. A regulation changing while you are delivering is a management scenario, not an accident: you need to know what you published, when, against which version of the rule — and you need the nerve to say so out loud when it moves.
Every policy-dependent system has this property. Decisions get taken under a version of the rules, and the rules move. If you cannot reconstruct which version was in force when something was decided, you cannot defend the decision and you cannot correct it cleanly either.