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EU-AI-ACT5 MIN READ

Classify the AI risk before assigning controls

Classify an AI use case into the AI Act risk level before deciding the compliance workstream.

The move: classify first, then control. The EU AI Act organizes obligations around risk. The first question is not "Which policy do we need?" It is "What kind of AI Act risk are we dealing with?" The main ladder is prohibited practices, high-risk systems, transparency-risk systems, and minimal or no-risk systems. Each rung changes the evidence, controls, approvals, and monitoring expected from the organization. Use ISO 31000 discipline here: establish context before treating risk. Context means the system's intended purpose, the workflow it enters, the people affected, the sector, the decision impact, and the foreseeable misuse. A recruiting model, a…

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