As AI becomes embedded in every stage of the hiring process, HR leaders are being asked to move fast and stay compliant. The EU AI Act is now setting the rules of the game, with recruitment and employment use cases classified as high-risk.

In this episode of The Talent Shift, we unpack what the regulation actually means in practice for HR, TA, and People teams: from AI literacy and governance to vendor due diligence and the practical compliance steps every HR team should be taking now.

Bryq is joined by Yiannis Kanellopoulos (Founder & CEO of code4thought) and Eleni Stathaki (General Counsel at Workable) to unpack the EU AI Act and what it really means for HR and Talent Acquisition teams. Moderated by George Kalyvas, CEO at Bryq, the conversation moves from regulation to reality: Article 4 on AI literacy, Article 6 on high-risk classification, how vendors and deployers split the responsibility, and what meaningful oversight actually looks like when AI is screening at scale.

This is essential viewing for HR, TA, and people leaders who know the EU AI Act applies to them but aren't sure where to start, who's responsible for what, or how to brief their leadership on what good actually looks like.

Watch the recording and discover:

• What Article 4 (AI literacy) actually requires from HR teams today, and what "sufficient" literacy looks like in practice

• Where AI in recruitment crosses into high-risk territory under Article 6, and the edge cases most teams haven't thought through

• Whether using general-purpose tools like ChatGPT or Claude to evaluate candidates is OK, and the liabilities most HR leaders don't realise they're carrying

• What questions HR teams should be asking AI vendors, and the red flags to walk away from

• How the EU AI Act overlaps with GDPR, and how to integrate compliance rather than treat it as two separate workstreams

• Who inside the business should actually own AI compliance, and how HR, Legal, and IT should work together