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.
Terms that appear alongside high-risk ai system
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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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 →Article 4(3) provides that for claims involving non-high-risk AI systems the 4(1) causal-link presumption applies only where the national court considers it excessively difficult for the claimant to prove the causal link.
AILD-Art.4.3 · Conditions for the presumption (non-high-risk AI systems, Article 4(3)) →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 →Perform an annual audit of deployed high-risk AI systems to detect algorithmic discrimination, document findings, and implement remediation.
VT-AICDA-8 · Annual Algorithmic Discrimination Audit →Article 11 derogates from the General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR, (EU) 2023/988) for products covered by the CRA on the cybersecurity dimension (CRA takes precedence).
CRA-Art.11_12 · Relationship with general product safety and AI Act (Articles 11-12) →Questions people ask about high-risk ai system
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