AI literacy (EU AI Act Article 4)
AI literacy is the EU AI Act Article 4 obligation requiring providers and deployers to ensure their staff who operate or use AI systems have a sufficient understanding of AI - its opportunities, risks, and possible harms. It has applied since 2 February 2025 and covers essentially every organisation that uses AI at work.
What 'sufficient' means
The required level scales with role, context, and the systems involved. A team building AI features needs deeper knowledge than occasional users of an AI assistant, but every organisation deploying AI must provide proportionate training and be able to evidence it.
How ComplyAgent covers it
ComplyAgent includes role-aware AI-literacy modules with quizzes, certificates, and completion tracking, so the Article 4 obligation is covered out of the box and you have records to show an auditor.
Last reviewed June 2026 by the ComplyAgent team.
See also our EU AI Act compliance guide, ISO/IEC 42001 and NIST AI RMF, or browse the full glossary.