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of artificial intelligence.
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What is AI labor displacement?
AI labor displacement is the substitution of human workers by AI systems for cognitive tasks, observed first at the task level and increasingly at the entry-level employment level in language- and code-heavy occupations.
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What is the EU AI Act?
The EU AI Act is a 2024 European Union law that classifies AI systems into four risk tiers and assigns obligations to each tier, with the strictest applying to high-risk and prohibited uses.
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What is RAG?
Retrieval-augmented generation pairs a search step with a language model so answers are grounded in retrieved documents, reducing hallucinations and supporting citations.
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