Barry Phillips (CEO) BEM founded Legal Island in 1998. He is a qualified barrister, trainer, coach, and meditator, and a regular speaker here in the UK and Ireland, and abroad.
Barry has completed the Oxford University course “Leading AI Implementation” in June 2026. He has trained hundreds of HR Professionals on how to use GenAI in the workplace and is the author of the book “ChatGPT in HR – A Practical Guide for Employers and HR Professionals”
They say that every good article starts with a strong opening so here’s mine: some employers are already compliant with the duty provided by the EU AI Act to ensure AI Literacy at work.
When Article 4's AI literacy obligation quietly came into force on February 2nd this year, it might have seemed like just another regulation lost in the noise of global headlines. Between Elon Musk's latest confrontations with government institutions and Trump's controversial foreign policy statements, you'd be forgiven for missing this crucial development. But here's the surprising news: the European Living Repository of AI Literacy Practices has just revealed that numerous organisations are already compliant. The repository documents ten full pages of fully compliant organisations, with an
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