The handbook provides a well-founded and wide-ranging overview of the content of the European
AI Act and its impact on the various areas of application of artificial intelligence in the
private and public sector. After a brief introduction to the current state of AI in terms of
international strategies methods regulation and ethical issues the second chapter explains
the content of the AI Act based on its structure. Further chapters in this part of the book
deal with data protection intellectual property and IT law. In the second part of the book
the impact of the AI Act on various AI application areas such as mobility work critical
infrastructure medicine etc. is discussed using various case studies. The authors
differentiate here between private and public sector. The book concludes with AI governance
risk compliance in companies and gives practical advice on using guidelines and governance
framworks the impact of ethical questions and the meaning of soft Law e.g. standards. The
team of authors consists of lawyers specializing in IT and data protection law and the use of
AI. It consists among others of Austria's representative in the AI Act negotiations at EU
Council level and the founder of the Austrian chapter of Women in AI.
