Commentary
Democratic Security
Sex Workers’ Case for Democratic Security in CEE
19 August 2026
20 August 2026
Integrating AI into the routines of government can make public services faster and less burdensome. But it can also make mistakes harder to see.
The EU’s new transparency rules for certain AI systems took effect on 2 August 2026. The new regulations stipulated in the AI Act are designed to help people know when they are interacting with an AI system or seeing artificially generated content. Article 50 of the Act puts obligations on providers and deployers of AI systems to disclose the use of such tools, and that the relevant inputs are ‘detectable as artificially generated or manipulated’.
That is an important baseline. But a label does not tell a citizen whether the system misunderstood a request, relied on stale information, produced an unequal pattern or sent an error into another agency’s workflow.