high-risk use
Uses with significant impacts on health, safety or fundamental rights.
Definitions (2)
Uses of AI systems that carry significant risks to health, safety or fundamental rights as characterised in the EU framework; the Strategy references this concept to prioritise safeguards, conformity roadmaps and sectoral regulatory attention in line with the EU AI Act.
A classification for AI uses that pose potential significant impacts to people’s rights, safety, legal status or wellbeing; such uses require proportionate, heightened assurance measures including rigorous testing, oversight, transparency and contestability mechanisms.
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