CDT Europe's Feedback on the Draft Guidelines for the Classification of High-Risk AI Systems under the AI Act
CDT Europe has submitted formal feedback on draft guidelines that will determine how AI systems are classified as high-risk under the EU AI Act. The classification guidelines matter because they set the boundary between AI uses subject to strict legal requirements and those that largely escape them.
Why this matters: The AI Act's rules only bite if a system gets labeled high-risk. That label triggers things like mandatory risk assessments, human oversight, and transparency obligations. If the classification guidelines are drawn too narrowly, companies can build consequential AI — tools that affect hiring, credit, health, or public services — and stay outside the rules entirely. CDT Europe's submission is pushing to make sure that boundary is drawn where the actual harm is, not where it is most convenient for industry.
Who should care: AI governance · Lawyers · Administrators · General readers · Policy
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