AI Act
In short: The AI Act is Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, the European Union law on artificial intelligence. It sets duties by risk level. For high-risk systems it requires human oversight, automatic logging and log retention, among other duties. Whether an agent is high-risk depends on what it is used for.
Which controls use this term?
- GOV-07Human approval for high-risk actions. Route actions above a defined risk threshold to a named human approver, and block them until that person approves.
- GOV-23Evidence retention. Keep agent logs, approvals and review records for a defined period that meets legal and contractual requirements.
Which terms are related?
Allow ask deny, Human in the loop, Human oversight, Audit trail, Evidence retention, Risk tier.
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