Could Your AI Systems Already Be High-Risk Under the EU AI Act?

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Could Your AI Systems Already Be High-Risk Under the EU AI Act?

The European Commission’s latest draft guidelines provide much-needed clarity on how organizations should classify high-risk AI systems under Article 6 of the EU AI Act. However, they also raise an important question for enterprises: could your existing AI systems already be considered high-risk without you realizing it?

The answer may depend on more than what the technology does. Under the EU AI Act, an AI system’s intended purpose plays a central role in determining its risk classification. This means how a system is documented, marketed, deployed, and used can be just as important as its technical capabilities.

Two Pathways to High-Risk Classification

Article 6 outlines two routes through which an AI system may be classified as high-risk:

• AI used within certain regulated products
• AI deployed in sensitive use cases that could significantly affect people’s health, safety, or fundamental rights

Immediate Questions for Enterprise Teams

For enterprise teams, this creates several immediate questions:

• Which AI systems across the organization fall within the scope of Article 6?
• Does current documentation accurately reflect how each system is being used?
• Could the Article 6(3) exemption apply, and what evidence would be required?
• What should legal, governance, and technology teams be doing now?

Next Steps

Airia’s on-demand webinar, EU AI Act: What It Actually Requires and Enterprises Need to Do Now, breaks down the new guidance and turns it into a practical decision framework. The session covers:

• The two pathways to high-risk classification
• The limitations of the Article 6(3) self-assessment mechanism
• The steps enterprises can take to assess their AI systems more confidently

Access the on-demand webinar to understand what the latest guidance means for your AI governance program and what your organization should do next.