Criticality of AI Systems in their respective Application Contexts

In order to bring safe and reliable applications into use, the European Commission, in its proposal on the regulation of AI systems in April 2021, advocated regulating AI systems according to their risk potential and classifying them into four risk levels, from minimal risk (no need for regulation) to unacceptable risk (prohibition of use). In the white paper „Criticality of AI systems in their respective application contexts – A necessary but not sufficient building block for trustworthiness“, experts from the working groups IT Security, Privacy, Legal and Ethical Framework as well as Technological Enablers and Data Science deal with selected contents of this EU proposal: namely, which criteria can be used to determine in which cases the use of AI systems should be regulated from the outset and when this is not necessary.

Read the press release here.