A plain-English guide to what the EU AI Act actually requires of employers — and where our programmes end and individual, tailored work begins.
"AI literacy means skills, knowledge and understanding that allow providers, deployers and affected persons […] to make an informed deployment of AI systems, as well as to gain awareness about the opportunities and risks of AI and possible harm it can cause."
— Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (EU AI Act), Article 3(56)Applies since February 2025. Article 4 requires providers and deployers of AI systems to take measures, to their best extent, to ensure a sufficient level of AI literacy among staff and other persons dealing with the operation and use of AI systems on their behalf. The Digital Omnibus proposal (19 Nov 2025) may shift this obligation toward Member States rather than individual organisations.
Staff operating high-risk AI systems (HR-tech, scoring, biometrics) must be trained for effective human oversight. This obligation remains in place regardless of Article 4 amendments — it requires deep tailoring to the specific high-risk system in use.
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The European Commission's AI Literacy Q&A states that a specific certificate is not required for Article 4; organisations can keep internal records of trainings instead. For this reason, we avoid the unsafe market language of "official Article 4 certification".
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