Learning Activities Taxonomy

Regulatory learning isn’t monolithic, it operates at four distinct levels with different actors, mechanisms, and outcomes:

Individual Learning: Developing AI literacy and regulatory competence in personnel. Required by Article 4 of the EU AI Act, but how to achieve it (courses, experiential learning, competency reviews) remains undefined.

Organizational Learning: Internal processes where regulated parties prepare to meet requirements before interacting with authorities. Quality management systems, risk assessments, documentation practices.

Enforcement Learning: Learning that emerges through interactions with oversight authorities, certification processes, surveillance actions, sandbox participation, complaint investigations.

Meta-Learning: Observing patterns across other learning activities to revise governance arrangements themselves, updating standards, issuing delegated acts, revising guidelines, amending legislation.

Each level requires different participants, produces different outputs, and feeds into different improvement cycles. Effective regulatory learning coordinates across all four.

Related: 05-atom—regulatory-learning-definition, 05-atom—meta-learning-governance, 05-atom—learning-arenas-governance