# AI answers on the EU AI Act: 1 official source in 111 AI answers can help you find names, and for what the EU AI Act asks of you, the official sources come first. The Assurance Desk, news. Published 2 October 2026. Updated 7 October 2026. Six AI engines, asked on 18 September 2026 about help with the EU AI Act, cited 111 sources between them, and 1 was official. It was the European Commission's AI Act Service Desk, cited once, by Perplexity. The other 110 came from 68 websites, none of them a government or regulator ([The Assurance Desk: AI answers on the EU AI Act, measured 18 September 2026 (data file)](https://theassurancedesk.com/data/ai-answers-eu-ai-act-2026-09-18.json), checked 2 October 2026). ## What did we ask the AI engines? On 18 September 2026, we asked six AI engines two questions about the EU AI Act, in the words a buyer might type. The software question was “best ai governance software for eu ai act compliance”. The help question was “uk company with no eu office who can help with eu ai act compliance” ([The Assurance Desk: AI answers on the EU AI Act, measured 18 September 2026 (data file)](https://theassurancedesk.com/data/ai-answers-eu-ai-act-2026-09-18.json), checked 2 October 2026). We asked from the United Kingdom, with web search on, so each engine could look things up and cite what it found. For three engines, we saved the answer as a person sees it on screen. For the other three, we asked through their API, the route software uses to send an engine a question ([The Assurance Desk: AI answers on the EU AI Act, measured 18 September 2026 (data file)](https://theassurancedesk.com/data/ai-answers-eu-ai-act-2026-09-18.json), checked 2 October 2026). **The six AI engines, and how we asked each one** | Engine | How we asked it | | --- | --- | | Google AI Overviews | The answer box on a Google search page, as a person sees it | | Google AI Mode | Google's AI search, as a person sees it | | Microsoft Copilot | Copilot search, as a person sees it | | Google Gemini 2.5 Flash | Through Google's API, with Google Search on | | Perplexity | Through Perplexity's API, with web search on | | OpenAI GPT-4o | Through OpenAI's API, with web search on | Source: The Assurance Desk: AI answers on the EU AI Act, measured 18 September 2026 (data file), https://theassurancedesk.com/data/ai-answers-eu-ai-act-2026-09-18.json (checked 2 October 2026) ## What did the AI answers cite? The 12 answers cited 111 sources in all, from 69 different websites. All but one answer cited at least one source. Microsoft Copilot cited none for the help question ([The Assurance Desk: AI answers on the EU AI Act, measured 18 September 2026 (data file)](https://theassurancedesk.com/data/ai-answers-eu-ai-act-2026-09-18.json), checked 2 October 2026). One source in 111 was official, meaning a government or regulator site. Across all 45 questions we track on data protection, AI governance and cyber security, asked the same day and counted the same way, it was about 7 in 100: 154 official sources among 2,241 ([The Assurance Desk: AI answers on the EU AI Act, measured 18 September 2026 (data file)](https://theassurancedesk.com/data/ai-answers-eu-ai-act-2026-09-18.json), checked 2 October 2026). **Where the cited links came from** Unit: Cited links - Government or regulator: 1 - Other sources: 110 111 cited links across 12 answers to two questions, six engines, UK, 18 September 2026. Counts include repeat links. This shows sources cited, not whether the answers were correct. Source: The Assurance Desk: AI answers on the EU AI Act, measured 18 September 2026 (data file), https://theassurancedesk.com/data/ai-answers-eu-ai-act-2026-09-18.json (checked 2 October 2026) **Sources cited, by engine and question** | Engine | Software question | Help question | Official sources | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Google AI Overviews | 10 | 10 | 0 | | Google AI Mode | 2 | 3 | 0 | | Microsoft Copilot | 11 | 0 | 0 | | Google Gemini 2.5 Flash | 14 | 11 | 0 | | Perplexity | 10 | 10 | 1 | | OpenAI GPT-4o | 20 | 10 | 0 | | All six | 67 | 44 | 1 | Source: The Assurance Desk: AI answers on the EU AI Act, measured 18 September 2026 (data file), https://theassurancedesk.com/data/ai-answers-eu-ai-act-2026-09-18.json (checked 2 October 2026) ## Which websites did AI cite most on the EU AI Act? Ten websites were cited 3 times or more. The one cited most was aiactindex.eu, 11 times, in 2 answers to the software question: 7 times by OpenAI GPT-4o and 4 times by Microsoft Copilot ([The Assurance Desk: AI answers on the EU AI Act, measured 18 September 2026 (data file)](https://theassurancedesk.com/data/ai-answers-eu-ai-act-2026-09-18.json), checked 2 October 2026). The website in the most answers was kosmoy.com, in 4 answers from 4 different engines. None of the ten is a government or regulator site ([The Assurance Desk: AI answers on the EU AI Act, measured 18 September 2026 (data file)](https://theassurancedesk.com/data/ai-answers-eu-ai-act-2026-09-18.json), checked 2 October 2026). **Websites cited 3 times or more** | Website | Times cited | Answers that cited it | Question | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | aiactindex.eu | 11 | 2 | Software | | evecore.com | 4 | 1 | Software | | kosmoy.com | 4 | 4 | Software | | aicompliancevendors.com | 3 | 1 | Software | | complylayer.com | 3 | 2 | Software | | eyreact.com | 3 | 3 | Help | | kla.digital | 3 | 3 | Software | | modulos.ai | 3 | 2 | Software | | openkit.co.uk | 3 | 2 | Help | | rmoklegal.com | 3 | 3 | Help | Source: The Assurance Desk: AI answers on the EU AI Act, measured 18 September 2026 (data file), https://theassurancedesk.com/data/ai-answers-eu-ai-act-2026-09-18.json (checked 2 October 2026) ## What is the AI Act Service Desk? It is the European Commission's website for help with the EU AI Act, and it was the one official source in the 111. Perplexity cited it once, for the help question ([The Assurance Desk: AI answers on the EU AI Act, measured 18 September 2026 (data file)](https://theassurancedesk.com/data/ai-answers-eu-ai-act-2026-09-18.json), checked 2 October 2026). Its home page is the AI Act Single Information Platform. It says the Act came into force on 1 August 2024. Its tools help you work out whether the Act gives you legal duties, and what steps to take to comply ([European Commission, AI Act Service Desk](https://ai-act-service-desk.ec.europa.eu/en), checked 2 October 2026). That is the first question for any business, whether it builds AI or only uses it. **What the AI Act Service Desk offers** - **AI Act Explorer**: Read the Act by chapter, annex and recital. - **Compliance Checker**: Check whether an AI system or a general-purpose AI model meets the Act's requirements. - **Contact the Service Desk**: Send a question about the Act, in your own language. A team of experts working with the EU AI Office answers it. - **AI Act Timeline**: The key dates for the Act, up to 2 August 2028, with the changes made by the Digital Omnibus on AI. What you can do on the European Commission's site for the EU AI Act. Source: European Commission, AI Act Service Desk: AI Act Single Information Platform, https://ai-act-service-desk.ec.europa.eu/en (checked 2 October 2026); European Commission, AI Act Service Desk: Timeline for the Implementation of the EU AI Act, https://ai-act-service-desk.ec.europa.eu/en/ai-act/timeline/timeline-implementation-eu-ai-act (checked 2 October 2026) ## Where can a UK business get help with the EU AI Act? For names, an AI answer can be a good start, with links you can open and read for yourself. For what the law says, start with the official sources. The AI Act Service Desk lets you read the Act, check whether it applies to you and send a question ([European Commission, AI Act Service Desk](https://ai-act-service-desk.ec.europa.eu/en), checked 2 October 2026). Our guide, [What does the EU AI Act ask of a UK business?](/guides/eu-ai-act-uk-business), sets out what applies now, what comes next and the dates, in plain terms. ## How we did this We asked each engine each question once, on 18 September 2026, from the United Kingdom, with web search on. We recorded every link each answer cited. When one answer cited the same link more than once, we counted each one ([The Assurance Desk: AI answers on the EU AI Act, measured 18 September 2026 (data file)](https://theassurancedesk.com/data/ai-answers-eu-ai-act-2026-09-18.json), checked 2 October 2026). A source counts as official when its web address ends in .gov.uk, .gov or europa.eu, or when it is the ICO's site, ico.org.uk ([The Assurance Desk: AI answers on the EU AI Act, measured 18 September 2026 (data file)](https://theassurancedesk.com/data/ai-answers-eu-ai-act-2026-09-18.json), checked 2 October 2026). We name each engine by what we ran. OpenAI GPT-4o is the model we asked through OpenAI's API, which is not the same as the ChatGPT app. The limits: two questions, one day, one run per engine. AI answers change from day to day, so a later run can cite different sources ([The Assurance Desk: AI answers on the EU AI Act, measured 18 September 2026 (data file)](https://theassurancedesk.com/data/ai-answers-eu-ai-act-2026-09-18.json), checked 2 October 2026). The full data, answer by answer and link by link, is in [our data file](https://theassurancedesk.com/data/ai-answers-eu-ai-act-2026-09-18.json). ## Read next - [AI governance: the section](https://theassurancedesk.com/ai-governance) - [What does the EU AI Act ask of a UK business?](https://theassurancedesk.com/guides/eu-ai-act-uk-business) - [Does your UK business need an AI policy, and what goes in it?](https://theassurancedesk.com/guides/the-ai-governance-gap) - [Exposed to the EU AI Act](https://theassurancedesk.com/best/eu-ai-act-exposed) ## Sources - The Assurance Desk: AI answers on the EU AI Act, measured 18 September 2026 (data file): https://theassurancedesk.com/data/ai-answers-eu-ai-act-2026-09-18.json (checked 2 October 2026) - European Commission, AI Act Service Desk: AI Act Single Information Platform: https://ai-act-service-desk.ec.europa.eu/en (checked 2 October 2026) - European Commission, AI Act Service Desk: Timeline for the Implementation of the EU AI Act: https://ai-act-service-desk.ec.europa.eu/en/ai-act/timeline/timeline-implementation-eu-ai-act (checked 2 October 2026) This is an independent editorial guide, not legal advice. --- **Who publishes this.** The Assurance Desk is published by Add-Venture Advisory Ltd, company number 11854524, registered in England and Wales. The same owner runs Avouch, a marketing agency that sells AI visibility services to firms of the kind this site covers. That is a conflict of interest, and it is disclosed here.