Dear all, If interested: Please find below the pre-print of a general introduction of the enactment of the final European regulation about harmonised rules on Artificial Intelligence (AI Act). The contribution aims to familiarise researchers from a broad range of disciplines from tech to policy, from law to social science with the complex regulatory structure and logic of the AI Act - from and inward European and outward international perspective. /*Ruschemeier, H.; Bareis, J. Searching for harmonised rules: Understanding the paradigms, provisions and pressing issues in the final EU AI Act.*/ https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4876206 /Forthcoming in: Gsenger/Sekwenz (eds), Digital Decade: How the EU shapes digitalisation/ /research, Nomos 2025./ Best, Jascha - *Jascha Bareis*(Profile) <https://www.itas.kit.edu/english/staff_bareis_jascha.php> (Scholar) <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=bf1gf9AAAAAJ&hl=de&oi=ao> (LinkedIn) <https://www.linkedin.com/in/jascha-bareis-36082523b/> Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) <https://www.itas.kit.edu/english/index.php> Karlsruher Institute of Technology (KIT) <https://www.kit.edu/english/index.php> Research Group Digital Technology and Societal Change (FG DigIT) <https://www.itas.kit.edu/english/rg_digit.php> *Recent Publications* The Trustification of AI. Disclosing the bridging pillars that tie Trust and AI together. Big Data & Society <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517241249430> Technology Hype: Dealing with bold expectations and overpromising, with M. Roßmann and F.Bordignon. Journal of Technology Assessment in Theory and Practice <https://www.tatup.de/index.php/tatup/article/view/7073> Talking AI into Being: The Narratives of National AI Strategies and Their Performative Politics, with C. Katzenbach. Science, Technology, & Human Values <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01622439211030007>