Glossary
High-risk AI system
A high-risk AI system is one the EU AI Act places in its most regulated tier because it affects people's access to things like employment, credit or education. Recruitment and candidate selection are named explicitly. The classification follows the use, not the technology, so an ordinary language model becomes high-risk the moment you point it at a shortlist.
Related terms
EU AI ActThe EU AI Act is the European regulation that classifies AI systems by risk and attaches obligations to each class.AI literacyAI literacy is the ability of the people operating an AI system to explain what it does, where its data came from, how it fails, and who made the decision.Algorithmic bias in hiringAlgorithmic bias in hiring is the tendency of a model to reproduce patterns in the data it learned from, including the ones you would not defend out loud.