AI Act safety duties now harden into criminal offences and liability presumptions.
Member-state implementation converts the AI Act's risk-management and oversight obligations into Italy's new criminal offence for governance failures — reaching the corporate entity itself — while the revised Product Liability Directive treats AI Act non-compliance as triggering a rebuttable presumption of defectiveness.
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AI Act non-compliance now shifts the burden of proof, presuming the deployed system defective in product-liability suits.
Italy's decree now in force converts AI Act breaches into presumed causation, direct insurer actions, deemed-admission evidence sanctions, and a new criminal offence — the hardening of AI Act duties into liability and crime, live.