How to approach prohibited practices, high-risk AI, transparency obligations and lower-risk uses without assuming a label from a single feature.
Prohibited practices
Article 5 identifies specific unacceptable uses. Review the exact legal wording and official guidance before deciding whether a practice falls within a prohibition.
Read the regulation ↗High-risk systems
Certain product safety components and specified use cases can be high-risk. Classification turns on intended purpose, the applicable Annex and relevant conditions, not on whether a system seems “powerful”.
Examine high-risk guidance ↗Transparency and lower-risk uses
Specific situations, including some human interaction and synthetic content, trigger disclosure or marking rules. Many other AI uses do not carry the high-risk system requirements, though other laws and internal governance can still matter.
This guide is an orientation, not a legal determination. Check the current legal text and official implementation guidance for your system.
Read the AI Act ↗European Commission overview ↗