Glossary term
Glossary term
Governance and Compliance
AI system category under EU AI Act with stricter obligations.
Annex III of the EU AI Act lists biometric-identification systems, CV-screening tools, credit-scoring models, and law-enforcement AI as high-risk - each requiring conformity assessment, logging, and human-oversight measures.
A Dutch municipality classified its social-benefit eligibility AI as high-risk and suspended it pending a fundamental-rights impact assessment - the first high-profile EU AI Act-influenced shutdown.
A US bank operating in the EU assessed its automated lending-decision model as high-risk under the EU AI Act, triggering a 12-month programme to add explainability, bias testing, and audit-trail logging.