High-impact/high-risk system
Systems likely to significantly affect safety, rights, or critical infrastructure.
How the laws define this
Both regulatory frameworks agree that high-impact or high-risk AI systems are defined by their potential to affect fundamental rights, health, and safety, subjecting them to mandatory risk or impact assessments alongside stricter compliance measures. They diverge primarily on the specific societal domains that trigger this classification and how regulatory duties are structured. The Action Plan of the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2030 (NAIS) for 2025 (Implementační plán programu Digitální Česko / Akční plán NAIS 2025) extends its scope to systems affecting public order or critical infrastructure, mandating enhanced safety testing, monitoring, and specific funding and deployment conditions. In contrast, the National Artificial Intelligence Policy Framework (Draft) — Department of Communications and Digital Technologies includes systems likely to impact economic inclusion or national security, enforcing tiered regulatory obligations proportional to potential impact alongside mandatory AI impact assessments and heightened accountability measures.
Synthesised from the 2 statutory definitions below. Each one is quoted in full, with its source.
What it triggers
- In the Czech Republic Action Plan of the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2030 for 2025, such systems are described as subject to risk assessments, enhanced safety testing, monitoring and stricter compliance conditions in project funding and deployment.source
Definitions (2)
AI systems identified as having significant potential to affect health, safety, fundamental rights, public order or critical infrastructure; such systems are subject to mandatory risk assessments, enhanced safety testing, monitoring and stricter compliance conditions in project funding and deployment.
An AI system or deployment that is likely to affect fundamental rights, health, safety, economic inclusion, or national security; such systems are subject to tiered regulatory obligations proportional to their potential impact and typically require mandatory AI impact assessments and stricter accountability measures.
Not to be confused with
The related term specifies harm to rights or safety, while these definitions include broader impacts like public order, economic inclusion, or national security.
Questions and answers
What obligations apply to high-impact/high-risk systems in the Czech Republic?
The Action Plan of the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2030 for 2025 describes them as subject to risk assessments, enhanced safety testing, monitoring and stricter compliance conditions in project funding and deployment. It is a non-binding policy.
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