I use my own personal AI account at work — do I have duties, or just my employer?
Work use is not a personal hobby in the Act.
Drafted with AI help and checked against the official EU text before publishing.
Work use is not a personal hobby in the Act. If the tool is used for the job, the business that uses it under its authority is the deployer — using your own login does not switch that off.
Article 4 still asks that people who operate the tools know their limits, and that has applied since 2 February 2025. What the Act does not settle in one sentence is whether the worker is a deployer as well as the business. We are not going to guess at that here.
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What the law actually says
"‘deployer’ means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body using an AI system under its authority except where the AI system is used in the course of a personal non-professional activity;"— EU AI Act, Article 3(4) (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689) · eur-lex.europa.eu
In plain words
- Article 3(4) carves out only personal, non-professional use. Drafting a customer email at work is professional use.
- The employer is typically the deployer when staff use AI under the business's authority — including a personal ChatGPT login used for work tasks.
- Article 4 still asks that people who operate the tools know their limits. That has applied since 2 February 2025.
- If you publish AI-made content for customers, Article 50 transparency (from 2 August 2026) is about that content, not about whose account typed it.
- What the Act does not settle in one sentence: whether the worker is a deployer as well as the business. The words doing the work are "under its authority", and the Act does not define them further. We are not going to guess at it here.
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