Avoiding Checkmate

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. Your business is already on the board. The EU AI Act is a rulebook. Chess is a game with a rulebook you already half know. This book uses one to explain the other: the parts of the Act are the pieces, the dates are the clock, the regulators are the arbiters, and the aim is to avoid checkmate. In fifteen short chapters, a fictional cast of seven organisations (a mid-sized firm, a building society, a lift maker, a newspaper, a start-up, a council and a cafe chain) make the moves your business will have to make, and the mistakes it can avoid. Every chapter ends with a puzzle, a quiz and a word on when to call your lawyer. Updated for the 2026 Digital Omnibus, with every date on the clock. Plain English throughout. No law degree required. Adapted for listening by the author: the whole book, reworked for the ear, and a little funnier than the print edition. Narrated in a digital voice built from the author's own voice. Matthew Blakemore is CEO of AI Caramba!, a contributor to the EU AI Office's General-Purpose AI Code of Practice, and co-author and co-editor of ISO/IEC 8183. Duration - 5h 36m. Author - Matthew Blakemore. Narrator - Digital Voice Matthew Blakemore E. Published Date - Wednesday, 07 January 2026. Copyright - © 2026 Matthew Blakemore ©.