Can an AI tool advise on the AI Act?

A tool designed to help understand the AI Act (& thoughts about AI for research)

Recently I created “GDPR bot” - a GPT designed to answer questions about GDPR. As someone who has been advising clients on GDPR since about 2016 (a couple of years before it came into force), GDPR is a piece of legislation I know relatively well. I’ve advised on different questions that come up, I know where the significant sections are (eg. around principles, processing, DPIAs etc) and the GPT that I set up was designed to be able to answer simple questions quicker.

By contrast the AI Act is a piece of legislation that has only recently passed and is not yet in force. It doesn’t apply (directly) to UK business, only to those planning to operate in the EU or trade with EU based customers (still a fairly wide range of clients), however the text of the AI Act is published.

Using Chat GPT’s “Create GPTs” function I therefore referenced the text of the legislation and asked Chat GPT to answer questions on the Act in particular way - I wanted it to give practical answers that also referenced, and linked to, the relevant part of the legislation - so that I could check those for myself.

(After all I’m not planning to use the GPT to give advice, but rather as a first port of call as - in this case I’m not familiar with the legislation (which is lengthy) so could do with a sensible view as to where to look in the Act to find answers around some of the trickier questions that I suspect I may be asked.

You’re welcome to try it for yourself here. Of course you shouldn’t use this for legal advice, nor rely on it for research (AI is like an enthusiastic researcher that will state wrong, but persuasive answers as confidently as right ones - so like me, you’ll need to double check the results) - and I take no responsibility for the answers it gives.

But - assuming that’s understood - you’re welcome to use this GPT here:

One note - the reason that I set this up as a GPT is because, when prompted without source material I’ve found ChatGPT not to be so good at actually looking at the regulation - but rather seems to use commentary about the legislation (or indeed previous iterations of the legislation - of which there have been several for the AI Act) - so I’d rather direct the AI to the text of the legislation itself.

I’d be really grateful of your thoughts. Also if you want to build these (or more sophisticated) GPTs for yourself let me know.