ACTLAS Maps the EU AI Act as a Knowledge Graph

By Suad Seferi · Aug 2, 2026

As Article 50 of the EU AI Act starts to apply, a new open-source project is trying to solve one of the regulation’s most practical problems: finding out which obligations apply to a specific AI system. ACTLAS, developed by Adopt Intelligence, turns the EU AI Act, GDPR and ISO/IEC 42001 into connected knowledge graphs. Instead of treating regulation as a collection of separate documents, the platform maps articles, recitals, annexes, definitions and obligations as linked nodes. Cross-references become traceable connections. The idea is to help legal, compliance and technical teams follow the regulatory path behind an answer. A user can describe an AI system, and ACTLAS identifies provisions that may apply, the actors responsible and the evidence that may still be missing. It combines semantic search with graph traversal and shows the sources used in its reasoning. The platform does not declare that a system is compliant. It is designed to classify systems, retrieve relevant requirements and highlight unresolved questions. The final assessment remains with legal and compliance professionals. That distinction matters as Article 50 introduces transparency duties for AI systems interacting directly with people, synthetic content, deepfakes, emotion-recognition systems and certain AI-generated public-interest texts. While several deadlines for high-risk AI systems have been postponed, Article 50 was not delayed in the same way. For companies deploying AI, the challenge is no longer only reading the regulation. It is connecting legal requirements with system design, documentation, responsibilities and evidence. ACTLAS is built around that problem. The project supports cloud and local models and can also be deployed on-premises. Its knowledge vaults and related materials are available through an open-source repository. The broader point is simple: AI regulation is becoming too interconnected for basic document search. The law may still be published as text, but applying it increasingly requires understanding the relationships inside it. ACTLAS supports cloud and local AI models and can also be deployed on-premises. Adopt Intelligence has published the underlying EU AI Act, GDPR and ISO/IEC 42001 knowledge vaults on GitHub under an MIT licence, allowing users to download them and explore the regulatory connections directly in Obsidian. ACTLAS platform: https://actlas.adoptintelligence.com/Open-source repository: https://github.com/adoptintelligence-ai/actlas