Defined in the law · AI Act Art. 3(65)
Systemic risk
In plain English
A risk tied to the high-impact capabilities of general-purpose AI models that can significantly affect the EU market or public health, safety, security, fundamental rights or society, and spread at scale.
The definition in the law
‘systemic risk’ means a risk that is specific to the high-impact capabilities of general-purpose AI models, having a significant impact on the Union market due to their reach, or due to actual or reasonably foreseeable negative effects on public health, safety, public security, fundamental rights, or the society as a whole, that can be propagated at scale across the value chain
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