To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On 14 April 2021, the EU Commission’s long-awaited draft proposals for the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) were leaked. The proposals, which are due to be formally announced on 21 April, set out a bold and comprehensive new legal framework for AI that are intended to address a wide-variety of challenges commonly associated with these technologies. Consistent with the Commission’s White Paper from 2020, which formed the basis for these proposals, the draft regulation notably does not apply blanket rules to all forms of AI. Instead the Commission has focused its attention on three primary categories of systems, which it considers to fall within the scope of the draft regulation. In summary, these categories are AI practices which are expressly prohibited, systems that are considered ‘high-risk’ and finally, other forms of AI which are intended to interact with humans.