High-Risk AI System
What is High-Risk AI System?
Under the EU AI Act, an AI system that poses significant risks to health, safety, or fundamental rights. High-risk AI systems are subject to mandatory requirements including risk management, data governance, transparency, human oversight, and accuracy.
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Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as high-risk ai system. The number is how many controls name both.
- compliance 8 shared controls
- management system 6 shared controls
- impact assessment 4 shared controls
- quality management 3 shared controls
- quality management system 3 shared controls
- governance 2 shared controls
- cybersecurity 2 shared controls
- data governance 2 shared controls
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What the standards actually require on high-risk ai system
Requirements naming high-risk ai system across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
The Commission, in collaboration with the Member States, shall set up and maintain an EU database for high-risk AI systems listed in Annex III;
EUAI-Art.71 · EU database for high-risk AI systems →A high-risk AI system is one that, when deployed, makes or is a substantial factor in making a consequential decision: a decision with a material legal/similarly significant effect on a consumer's access to or terms of education, employment, financial/lending...
CO-AIA-1701-HIGHRISK · High-Risk AI System and Consequential Decision Scope →High-risk AI. Article 17 designates the categories of high-risk AI systems (e.g. critical infrastructure, education, employment, essential services, justice, biometrics) subject to enhanced governance.
BRAI-A17 · High-risk AI systems →The audit time for surveillance audits and for surveillance of the client between them. Certification bodies applying the standard read A.4 as providing for surveillance beyond the regular cycle where the AIMS manages high-risk AI systems or AI applied to sens...
iso-iec-42006-2025::A.4 · A.4 Audit time for the surveillance audit and client surveillance →Georgia DPL crosswalk to major DP regimes. EU GDPR (Regulation (EU) 2016/679): post-2023 amendments substantially aligned + most GDPR concepts (extraterritorial scope + 7 lawful bases + 8 special-category bases + 7 data subject rights + DPO + DPIA + 72-hour br...
GeDPL-Crosswalk-GDPR-CoE108-NIS2 · Crosswalk to GDPR, Council of Europe Convention 108+, EU AI Act and NIS2 →When setting up the process the organization should decide when assessments are carried out and in how much depth, and when an earlier assessment can be used again, adapted to a new purpose or updated, and to what extent.
iso-iec-42005-2025::5.4 · Timing of the assessment, reassessment triggers and triaging →Questions people ask about high-risk ai system
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