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Provider or deployer?
Also called: who is responsible, roles under the AI Act
The AI Act assigns duties by role. A provider develops or places an AI system on the market; a deployer uses one under its own authority. The same organisation can be both, and the roles carry different obligations.
Your duties depend on which hat you wear. Buying and using a tool (deployer) is different from building or substantially modifying one (provider) — and modifying a system can turn a deployer into a provider.
A single 'user' category. The law deliberately separates who builds from who operates, because they control different risks.
- Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (AI Act)Official Journal of the European Union (EUR-Lex) · 2024-07-12
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