# Ensure AI literacy of staff operating AI systems

- **Record type**: Obligation
- **Instrument**: Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 — Artificial Intelligence Act
- **Jurisdiction**: European Union
- **Category**: ai_literacy
- **Binding**: Yes
- **Applies from**: 2025-02-02
- **Provision**: Article 4

## In brief

Ensure AI literacy of staff operating AI systems is a legal requirement under the EU AI Act in the European Union (Article 4). It applies from 2 February 2025. The record carries 1 evidence example and mappings to 2 frameworks.

## What the duty requires

Providers and deployers must take measures to ensure, to their best extent, a sufficient level of AI literacy among their staff and other persons dealing with the operation and use of AI systems on their behalf, taking into account technical knowledge, experience, training, the context of use and the persons affected.

## What an organisation does about it

Run role-based AI training and keep attendance and content records; the Commission's AI Office has indicated that literacy will be assessed proportionately.

## Controls that meet this duty

- AI literacy and role-based training programme (satisfies): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/ai-literacy-and-role-based-training

## Parent instrument

- Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 — Artificial Intelligence Act
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/eu-ai-act
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/eu-ai-act.md

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-OBL-0005 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0005; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/eu-ai-act-ai-literacy
- **Official source**: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj
- **Provision**: Article 4
- **Review status**: pending review
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: never confirmed against the official source
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- **Cite as**: AIPolicyTracker (2026). "Ensure AI literacy of staff operating AI systems (EU AI Act)" [AIPT-OBL-0005, not yet verified]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0005 (accessed 27 October 2026).

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