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Last updated: 26 August 2026
- The Fundamental Rights Impact Assessment, Explained for Education
Article 27 requires a Fundamental Rights Impact Assessment before first use of high-risk AI. What it covers, who completes it, and how it relates to a DPIA. - Outside the EU, Inside the Act: What UK Universities Need to Check
The EU AI Act can reach UK universities with EU students or EU data, even without an EU campus. What Article 2(1)(c) means, and where to look first. - High-Risk by Classification: What the EU AI Act Actually Asks of Detection Tools
AI-text detectors and proctoring sit in the EU AI Act's high-risk category. What accuracy and human-oversight duties mean for tools with known false positives. - The Quiet Ban on 'Engagement Detection': Emotion-Recognition AI in EU Classrooms
EU law has prohibited emotion-recognition AI in education since February 2025. What the banned tools claimed to do, and why the science behind them fell short. - University Assessment Needs Verifiable Judgment, Not AI Detection
HEPI argues that universities should assess verifiable judgement rather than rely on AI detection alone. - Albanese AI framework faces 2027 wait as Greens push halt
Australia’s proposed national AI rules protect creatives but delay legislation to early 2027, prompting Greens calls to pause hyperscale datacentres. - Detection or entrapment? The ethics of the professor's hidden-text trap
White-on-white instructions in briefs can catch AI use, yet they blur detection and entrapment and quietly erode trust on campus. - Software engineers sharpen fundamentals as AI rewrites the profession
Software engineers in the US are retraining, evaluating AI output, organising collectively or leaving, a July 2026 Guardian portrait finds. - Prompt injection: the hidden instructions that can turn an AI assistant against its user
Prompt injection hides commands inside web pages and documents so AI assistants that act for you can be steered into theft, misdirection or unwanted actions. - Australia's new AI office protects creators from copyright theft
Australia will create an Office of AI, tighten creator copyright rules, and set binding datacentre standards from early 2027.