Every Paragraph Is A Graph: Turning The EU AI Act Into Fractal Semantic Graphs
The method behind the regulation vault, with the concepts appendix.
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Why it is here
The Regulation Graph vault is the artefact; this is the method. Its claim is that every paragraph of an instrument was written for a reason, so every paragraph yields something: a fact, a risk, a control, a requirement, or work to be done. The two ideas worth the read are that the instrument's own definitions are the first and most valuable layer of nodes, and that terms used but never defined are where interpretive risk concentrates — which makes surfacing them an artefact in its own right.
What it says
- Every paragraph yields a fact, a risk, a control, a requirement, or work to be done.
- Each provision carries its own subgraph rather than folding into one flat graph.
- The hooks into reality are twins, and whether an endpoint reaches reality is computable.
- The instrument's own definitions are the first and most valuable layer of nodes.
- Terms used without definition are where interpretive risk concentrates.
Worth re-reading for. Appendix A lists the established concepts the pipeline assumes. It is a compact index of the corpus, and half the concept map is in it.
Where this document lands on the site
The document is the peak. Below it hang the concepts measured in its text and the places on this site that rest on it — and the two are different kinds of link, drawn differently: a measured edge is dashed and carries its count, an authored edge is solid. The method is stated in full on the hub.