AI training is no longer a choice. It's a legal obligation.
Article 4 of the AI Act requires every company that uses artificial intelligence to ensure an adequate level of competence among its staff. We help you become compliant with a hands-on path, not a box-ticking course.
In short
Since 2 February 2025, Article 4 of the AI Act requires every company that uses artificial intelligence to ensure an adequate level of staff training. The obligation applies to anyone using tools like ChatGPT, Claude or Copilot at work, not just to those who build AI. From 2 August 2026 national authorities can impose fines up to 35 million euros or 7% of global turnover. No certificate is required: what matters is real training, proportionate to each role and documented. Maverick AI helps companies become compliant with a practical 6-step method.
What Article 4 actually says
The AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689) is the world's first comprehensive law on artificial intelligence. Article 4 is short and direct:
Providers and deployers of AI systems shall take measures to ensure, to their best extent, a sufficient level of AI literacy of their staff and other persons dealing with the operation and use of AI systems on their behalf.
Article 4, Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act)
In plain terms: if your company uses AI, you must make sure the people who use it know what they're doing. What it is, how it works, what risks it involves, what they can and cannot do with data. You don't need a certificate. You need real, documented training.
Are you obliged?
The obligation is broad. It covers three categories, and the third one concerns almost everyone.
Those who develop AI (providers)
If you build or customise AI systems, even just by integrating a model into your own product, you're a provider and the obligation applies to you.
Those who use AI in business (deployers)
If your organisation uses AI systems in its own processes under its own responsibility, you're a deployer. It's the broadest category.
Anyone using tools like Claude or ChatGPT
Marketing generating copy, HR doing screening, finance analysing data. If your team uses AI at work, the duty to train them is already yours.
What you need to do, concretely
The rule doesn't impose a specific course. It requires measures proportionate to role and risk. These are the four pillars.
Map where you use AI
Which tools run in your company, in which processes, with which data. Without this picture you don't know what to train or whom.
Train according to role
An executive, an analyst and a developer have different needs. Training must be calibrated to each person's skills, context and risk level.
Document what you do
You don't need a certificate, but you need proof. Just like with GDPR: training in itself isn't penalised, but its absence is the first thing an authority will challenge.
Keep it up to date
AI changes every month. One-off training isn't enough: you need an ongoing approach that keeps pace with new tools and risks.
How we make you compliant
We don't sell a recorded course to show in case of an inspection. We build a path around your real processes, one that genuinely trains people and leaves you with the documentation you need. It's the 6-phase method we use with all our clients.
Enforcement starts in August 2026
You have a window to become compliant before authorities start to monitor. It's worth using it.
Frequently asked questions
Answers to the most common questions about the AI Act training obligation.
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Become compliant with the AI Act
A hands-on path that genuinely trains your team and leaves you with the documentation you need. We start with a no-obligation call.