The EU AI Act in Development Practice: A Pro-justice Approach

Bibliographic Details
Title: The EU AI Act in Development Practice: A Pro-justice Approach
Authors: Hollanek, Tomasz, Pi, Yulu, Peters, Dorian, Yakar, Selen, Drage, Eleanor
Publication Year: 2025
Collection: Computer Science
Subject Terms: Computer Science - Computers and Society
More Details: With the adoption of the EU AI Act, companies must understand and implement its compliance requirements -- an often complex task, especially in areas like risk management and fundamental rights assessments. This paper introduces our High-risk EU AI Act Toolkit(HEAT), which offers a pro-justice, feminist ethics-informed approach to support meaningful compliance. HEAT not only helps teams meet regulatory standards but also translates ethical theory into practice. We show how feminist perspectives on expertise, stakeholder engagement, accessibility, and environmental justice inform HEAT's methods and expand on the Act's baseline. The theories we draw on are not naively utopian. Instead, they inspire non-innocent approaches to interrogating normativity in systems of all kinds -- technological and otherwise. By this we mean that pro-justice orientations are cognizant of their involvement in the systems they seek to critique, and offer best practices with how to grapple with the trade-offs inherent in reducing and eradicating harmful behaviour from within. These best practices, as we explain in this paper, are what HEAT both embodies and enables.
Document Type: Working Paper
Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.20075
Accession Number: edsarx.2504.20075
Database: arXiv
More Details
Description not available.