AI Act: Leading MEPs revise high-risk classification, ignoring negative legal opinion

 

The EU lawmakers spearheading the work on the EU’s AI bill have circulated a new version of the provisions regarding the classification of high-risk AI systems, maintaining the filter-based approach despite a contrary legal opinion.

The AI Act is a landmark EU legislation to regulate Artificial Intelligence following a risk-based approach. At the heart of the law is a stricter regime for AI systems that pose a significant risk to people’s health, safety and fundamental rights, which must comply with tight requirements regarding risk management and data governance.

In the original proposal, all AI solutions falling under a pre-set list of critical use cases were deemed automatically high-risk. In the past weeks, EU policymakers have discussed a series of exemption conditions allowing AI developers to avoid the high-risk classification. (...)