AI Act Classification Diagnostic

Question 1

Is your AI system used in any EU member state, or does it affect people in the EU?

Article 2(1) territorial scope. Includes the case where outputs reach EU users.

Yes

No

Question 2

Is your AI system used for any of these purposes?

Select all that apply. Article 5 prohibited practices.

Social scoring leading to detrimental treatment (by any actor, public or private)

Real-time remote biometric identification in publicly accessible spaces

Subliminal, manipulative, or deceptive techniques causing harm

Exploiting vulnerabilities of age, disability, or socio-economic situation

Emotion recognition in workplace or education

Untargeted scraping of facial images for recognition databases

Biometric categorisation inferring sensitive attributes (race, religion, political opinion, sexual orientation, trade union membership)

Predictive policing based solely on profiling or personality assessment

None of these

Question 3

Is your AI system exempt from the AI Act?

Select all that apply. Article 2 carve-outs.

Used exclusively for military, defence, or national security

Used purely for scientific research and development

Pre-market research, testing, or development before placing on market

Personal non-professional use only

Free and open-source release (not high-risk, not prohibited)

None of these exemptions apply

Question 4

Is your AI system a safety component of a regulated product that requires third-party conformity assessment?

Article 6(1) and Annex I: medical devices, machinery, toys, lifts, vehicles, in-vitro diagnostics, pressure equipment, radio equipment, etc.

Yes

No

Not sure

Question 5

Which best describes your AI system's primary use?

Article 6(2) and Annex III categories, or general-purpose AI.

Biometric identification (post-remote, not real-time in public)

Critical infrastructure management or operation

Education or vocational training (access, assessment, monitoring)

Employment (recruitment, screening, evaluation, task allocation)

Essential private and public services (credit scoring, insurance pricing, emergency response triage)

Law enforcement (risk assessment, polygraph, evidence evaluation)

Migration, asylum, and border control

Administration of justice and democratic processes

General-purpose AI model or foundation model

None of the above

Question 6

Does your system only perform a narrow procedural task, improve the result of a prior human activity, detect decision-making patterns without replacing the human decision, or perform a preparatory task?

Article 6(3) derogation from high-risk classification.

Yes

No

Question 6 — follow-up

Does the system profile natural persons?

Profiling forces high-risk regardless of Article 6(3).

Yes

No

Question 7

Does your GPAI model have cumulative training compute of 10²⁵ FLOPs or more, or has it been designated systemic-risk by the Commission?

Article 51(2) systemic-risk threshold.

Yes

No

Don't know

Question 8

Does your AI system interact directly with people, generate synthetic content (text, audio, image, video), perform emotion recognition, or perform biometric categorisation?

Article 50 transparency obligations.

Yes

No

Question 9

What is your role in the AI value chain?

Determines which obligation set applies.

Provider — I develop the AI system

Deployer — I use an AI system developed by others

Importer — I bring non-EU AI systems to the EU market

Distributor — I make AI systems available on the EU market

Authorised representative (Article 22)

Product manufacturer integrating an AI system into a product (Article 25)

Question 10

Do you have a documented risk management system?

Article 9 — required for high-risk systems.

Yes

Partially

No

Question 11

Do you maintain technical documentation per Article 11?

Annex IV: training data, architecture, performance, conformity.

Yes

Partially

No

Question 12

Do you have human oversight mechanisms in place?

Article 14 — designed to enable human intervention.

Yes

Partially

No

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