New blogpost “Are we underestimating the communicative nature of the AI Act?”
Members of the ComAI subproject 3, Jonathan Nörz and Wolfgang Schulz, have published the blog post “Are we underestimating the communicative nature of the AI Act?”, which examines the EU’s AI legislation and argues that it introduces a distinct regulatory layer for communicative AI tools.
The blog post discusses the regulation of AI-based communication systems in Europe. While current debates mainly focus on platform rules such as the Digital Services Act—for example in connection with a complaint by media associations against the “Google AI Overview” feature of Alphabet Inc.—the EU AI Act has so far received less attention. Nörz and Schulz argue, however, that this regulation is also highly relevant for governing so-called “Communicative AI,” meaning AI systems such as generative text or image generators and voice assistants that automatically produce content and shape communication. The post therefore examines to what extent such systems can be classified as General-Purpose AI models under the AI Act and whether the regulation adequately addresses the specific risks associated with communicative AI.
Here you can find the full blog post.
13. March 2026
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp
ZeMKI, Center for Media, Communication and Information Research
University of Bremen
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E-mail: andreas.hepp@uni-bremen.de
