The AI Act aims to harmonise internal market regulations for AI, ensuring the safety of AI products while respecting fundamental rights. This analysis seeks, first, to determine whether the EU has legitimately exercised its legislative power on a subject of shared competence and, second, to assess whether the regulatory framework of the AI Act is truly suited to achieve its ultimate goal, both within and outside the EU. There is a risk that stringent, EU-only legislation may hinder development without fully achieving its objectives: protecting the internal market and fundamental rights.

The article proposes new forms of participation and financing of public works that ensure the involvement of the population thanks to the solutions made possible by blockchain. The contribution starts from the consideration that the financing of public initiatives affects administrations and citizens closely, both as users and as taxpayers. The city is thus understood as an innovation laboratory, where virtuous solutions can be experimented and implemented while maintaining a close connection to the population. To this end, concrete solutions are proposed for innovative, traceable and sustainable financing of public infrastructures, activated with the new tools developed on blockchain technology.