Case open · Serious game
Investigate artificial intelligence. Classify the risk. Understand the AI Act.
NO AI ACT is a free investigative game about the European AI Act. Open the files of 11 AI systems, examine the evidence and file an inspection report: prohibited, high-risk, to be governed, or compliant?
01What it is
NO AI ACT puts the player in the role of an inspector in a city where artificial intelligence makes decisions about real people. Each case is a file: read the documents, open the evidence, cite the proof and sign a risk classification following the logic of the European AI Act. It is not a multiple-choice quiz: the right decision, poorly justified, remains contestable.
Evidence, not slogans
Every case has documents with a source label. To decide you must cite at least two of them: the reasoning matters as much as the conclusion.
Four outcomes
Compliant, partial, contestable, non-compliant. Tell apart prohibited practices, high risk, transparency obligations and legitimate uses.
In the browser, free
No account, no download, no backend. Open the link and play. Your progress stays local on your device.
02What you learn
NO AI ACT trains you to reason about risk, not to memorise articles. By the end of a session you can tell what the law prohibits from what it asks you to govern.
- Recognise prohibited AI practices (such as social scoring) and why they are banned.
- Identify high-risk systems and the obligations they entail.
- Assess transparency, effective human oversight and deployer responsibility.
- Understand why a disclaimer or a formal human check is often not enough.
- Distinguish the context of use: the same system can be legitimate or critical depending on how it is deployed.
- Argue a decision with evidence: contestability as a measure of quality.
03The 11 cases
From the clearest cases to the deliberately ambiguous ones. Each file tests a different part of the AI Act.
- FILE 01The city of scoresSocial scoring of citizens: the boundary of prohibited social scoring.
- FILE 02The interview that does not existAutomated recruitment and risks in employment.
- FILE 03The synthetic cityGenerated content and transparency obligations toward the public.
- FILE 04The observed classMonitoring in education and the rights of minors.
- FILE 05Invisible triageHigh-risk clinical decision support in healthcare.
- FILE 06Faces in the crowdBiometric recognition in public spaces.
- FILE 07Civic creditA mirror case: prohibited social scoring vs welfare and credit.
- FILE 08The desk that always answersPublic chatbot, reliance and the human channel.
- FILE 09The opaque tenderPublic procurement of AI without documentation or governance.
- FILE 10The profiled classroomAdaptive learning platform that profiles students.
- FILE 11The do-it-all modelGenerative model (GPAI) used downstream in internal decisions.
04Who it is for
Teachers and trainers
To introduce the AI Act in class with a hands-on experience. Teacher mode with a local debrief and missions of varying length.
Students
Upper-secondary schools, universities and vocational institutes. An active way to grasp AI governance with no legal prerequisites.
Professionals and the curious
Anyone working with AI systems — compliance, product, public sector — who wants to train their intuition about risk.
05How to use it
- Solo: open the investigation and work through the cases at your own pace. Choose language, difficulty and mission.
- In class: turn on teacher mode for the local end-of-session debrief and export an anonymous summary (.txt / .json).
- In groups: use a case as a discussion prompt; the "decisive evidence" line makes explicit why a classification holds or is contestable.
06Privacy by design
No personal data leaves your device.
No backend, no account, no classroom dashboard, no remote analytics enabled by default. Progress and settings are saved only in the browser's localStorage. The teacher debrief export is local and anonymous.
07Frequently asked questions
What is NO AI ACT?
It is a free investigative serious game about the European AI Act. You investigate artificial intelligence systems, examine the evidence and file a report classifying their risk.
Is NO AI ACT legal advice?
No. It is a simplified educational simulation. It is not legal advice and does not replace the text of the regulation or the opinion of a professional.
Do I need to register or create an account?
No. There is no registration, no account, no backend. The game runs entirely in the browser and progress is stored only locally.
How many cases can I play?
Eleven cases, from the clearest to the most ambiguous: from prohibited social scoring to high-risk systems in healthcare, schools and public administration, up to generative models used downstream.
Is it suitable for classroom teaching?
Yes. It is designed for upper-secondary schools, universities and professional training. There is a teacher mode with a local debrief and missions of varying length. No student data is collected.
Does NO AI ACT collect personal data?
No. No personal data is collected or sent to any server. There are no accounts, classroom dashboards or remote analytics enabled by default.
How much does it cost?
It is completely free and open source. The code is released under the MIT licence and the educational content under CC BY 4.0.
08Join the playtest
Are you using NO AI ACT in class or on your own? Your feedback shapes the next cases. The form is external, short and anonymous: no mandatory personal data.