By skyforbes 
You run a small or medium-sized enterprise. You haven’t invested in any specialized AI system. You don’t even have a company subscription to ChatGPT, Gemini, or any equivalent platform. Yet you’re aware that some of your employees — perhaps even you yourself — occasionally use AI tools to draft emails, proposals, or to research markets and potential clients. So surely, you don’t need to undertake anything to comply with the EU AI Act, right?
Unfortunately, that’s where many SMEs are mistaken. Ignoring your real obligations under the EU AI Act could expose your business to unnecessary and significant legal and regulatory risk.
The Compliance Myth: Informal AI Use Does Create Formal Obligations
Many business owners assume that because they are merely _consumers_ of general-purpose AI tools and don’t pay for subscriptions to Ai tools, the EU AI Act doesn’t apply to them. This assumption is fundamentally flawed.
The Act contains no blanket exemption for companies that simply allow employees to use free AI tools at will without implementing proper policies, safeguards, or internal rules. There is an exception for AI used solely for personal, non-professional activity…