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Blackletter reads the official record of UK and EU AI regulation, every day, so that the people who must comply can ask one question and get a cited answer.
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The letter B, set in fraktur, resolving to the present day.
There is no single UK AI law. The rules live across statutes, regulator guidance, codes and enforcement decisions, written for lawyers and scattered across a dozen official websites. Assembling one answer can take a knowledgeable person half a day.
Blackletter gathers the official record into one place: legislation, regulator guidance and recognised frameworks, each passage carrying its source, its section reference and the date it last changed. Ask a question in plain English and the answer arrives with its citations attached.
And when the corpus cannot support an answer, Blackletter says so. It cites, or it abstains. It never guesses, because in this subject a confident wrong answer is worse than none.
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First releaseThe corpus admits official bodies only. Law firm commentary and press coverage may point us at the record; they never become the record.
| Body | What is taken |
|---|---|
| legislation.gov.uk | UK GDPR, Data Protection Act 2018, Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 |
| Information Commissioner's Office | Guidance, opinions, enforcement, codes of practice |
| Cabinet Office and GOV.UK | AI policy, the regulation framework, transparency records |
| FCA · CMA · Ofcom · MHRA | Sector positions on artificial intelligence |
| EUR-Lex and the EU AI Office | The EU AI Act, guidelines, codes of practice |
| EDPB | Opinions and guidelines reaching UK firms |
| NIST · OECD · Council of Europe | Frameworks the UK formally references |
| ISO 42001 · AIUC-1 | Mapping only, labelled as industry standards, never blended into legal answers |
The principal bodies. The full register also admits Parliament, the DRCF, AISI, NCSC, the EHRC, the IPO and further sector regulators as they publish on AI.
Compliance runs on dates. These are the ones already fixed on the record, and the first of them is nearly here.
·until the first deadline
| 2 Aug 2026 | EU AI Act Article 50 transparency obligations apply. Enforcement powers for general purpose AI switch on, with fines to EUR 15m or 3% of turnover. |
| 2 Dec 2026 | Grace period ends for machine readable marking in generative systems already on the market. |
| 2 Dec 2027 | Annex III high risk obligations apply: hiring tools, credit scoring, biometrics and kin. |
| 2 Aug 2028 | Obligations reach high risk systems embedded in regulated products. |
Dates as enacted and amended on the official record at the time of writing. The Terminal will keep this table honest.
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