Open-Source Logging Infrastructure for EU AI Act Article 12 Compliance
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Summary
The article discusses an open-source logging infrastructure solution designed to help companies comply with Article 12 of the EU AI Act, which requires automatic event recording and six-month retention for high-risk AI systems. The author, drawing from experience in regulated industries, identified a gap in existing observability tools for proving exactly what happened in specific AI decisions months later and demonstrating that log trails haven't been altered. The solution addresses compliance needs for reconstructing agentic events, particularly affecting UK and US companies operating under EU regulations.
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The EU AI Act has already entered force, and its Article 12 kicks-in in August this year, requiring automatic event recording and six-month retention for high-risk systems.
We already had strong observability, but if someone asked me to prove exactly what happened for a specific AI decision X months ago (and demonstrate that the log trail had not been altered), I could not.
I've worked in a number of regulated industries off & on for years, and recently hit this gap.
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