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EU AI Act: practical measures
After this landmark, you can list the operational steps a deployer takes once a system is classified under a given EU AI Act risk tier, beyond just knowing the tier exists.
You can still explore it. We’re showing the shared explanation and a related practical view without hiding the knowledge.
Knowing a system falls into the EU AI Act’s high-risk category (from Judge’s risk-lens landmark) is the classification step; this landmark is the operational follow-through: for a deployer, that typically means ensuring the system is used according to its instructions, maintaining human oversight appropriate to the use, monitoring for and reporting serious incidents, keeping records that demonstrate compliance, and conducting a fundamental rights impact assessment for certain public-sector and specified private-sector uses. Providers face additional obligations (conformity assessment, technical documentation, registration), but many organizations using AI are deployers, and deployer obligations are the ones most often underestimated because ‘we didn’t build it’ feels like it should mean ‘it’s not our compliance burden.’
This is the canonical concept. It stays the same across learner lenses so personalization never changes the underlying facts.
What this looks like for you
Not your layer directly, but it’s why certain AI features you encounter (in hiring, credit, or public services) come with more disclosure and appeal mechanisms than others, that’s the Act’s obligations showing up in the product.
MAKE A DECISION
A company deploys a high-risk AI system built by a third-party vendor for screening loan applications. The vendor has completed its own conformity assessment. What is the deploying company still responsible for?
CARRY THISFor one high-risk (or likely high-risk) AI system your organization deploys, list who owns human oversight, incident monitoring, and record-keeping for it. Are all three assigned?
- Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (Artificial Intelligence Act)Official Journal of the European Union · 2024-07-12
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