you are talking to a machine

The label is an intervention, not a disclaimer. On August 2, 2026, a new sentence entered the regulatory lexicon of every chatbot operating in the European Union: You are talking to an AI. Article 50 of the EU AI Act requires it. Any company deploying a system that interacts with people through conversation must disclose, at the start of the interaction, that the other side isn&rsquo;t human.…