EU AI Act Art. 4 AI Literacy Programme — Curriculum and Training Register

Art. 4 has applied since February 2025 and binds providers and deployers whatever the risk tier. Curriculum for eight roles, a training register, and coverage that recalculates.

Art. 4 is the obligation everyone already owes and almost nobody evidences.

It has applied since 2 February 2025. It binds providers and deployers. It does not care what tier your systems are in. And the Digital Omnibus softened its wording — from "shall ensure a sufficient level" to "shall take measures to support" — without removing it.

What a supervisor actually asks for

Not a slide deck. A record: which roles were trained, on what, and when. That is what this file is.

Different roles need different things

The reason literacy programmes stall is that they are designed as one course for everyone, which is simultaneously too much for most staff and too little for the people who need it. The curriculum here splits eight roles:

• Board and executive — the obligation map, the penalty exposure, who owns what. Not the technical detail.
• Compliance and risk — enough to challenge a classification and read a technical file.
• Legal and procurement — provider vs deployer, the Art. 25 triggers, the clause set.
• Product and engineering — oversight and logging built in rather than bolted on.
• Data science — what Art. 10 asks of a training set.
• Operations and human overseers — how to actually exercise the oversight assigned to them.
• Customer-facing staff — what must be disclosed under Art. 50.
• All staff — baseline awareness.

The Art. 26(2) trap

For high-risk deployers the bar is higher than Art. 4. The people assigned to human oversight must have competence, training and the authority to intervene. A trained overseer who cannot overrule the model does not satisfy Art. 26(2) — and that is the failure automation bias produces on its own, quietly, over months.

Free training that feeds this register

The AI Act Fundamentals course on this site is free and covers the "All staff" row and much of "Compliance and risk". Its exam issues a certificate with a public verification id you can file straight into the register.

What it covers in the regulation

• Art. 4 — AI literacy
• Art. 26(2) — competent and trained oversight staff