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ARTICLE · 08 SEPTEMBER 2025

Top 10 Questions On The EU AI Act

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The Act defines an "AI system" as "a machine-based system that is designed to operate with varying levels of autonomy and that may exhibit adaptiveness...

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  1. What is the definition of an “AI system” under the EU AI Act, and what do the key elements of this definition signify?

    The Act defines an “AI system” as “a machine-based system that is designed to operate with varying levels of autonomy and that may exhibit adaptiveness after deployment and, that, for explicit or implicit objectives, infers, from the input it receives, how to generate outputs such as predictions, content, recommendations, or decisions that can influence physical or virtual environments”. The key aspects of this definition are: a) It must be a machine-based system, meaning running on machines, b) It must function with some degree of autonomy, operating independently of human intervention to a certain extent (although the precise level of autonomy required is not explicitly defined), c) It should have adaptiveness, or self-learning abilities, enabling it to evolve while in use (though this is optional, as the Act states it “may” exhibit this), and

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