KI-Verordnung-Klassifizierungen in Aktion

This system performs automated screening and ranking of job applicants and produces match scores/shortlists that are the primary input for interview decisions. Recruitment and access to employment are explicitly covered by Annex III (4) “employment, worker management and access to self-employment,” making it High-Risk under Art. 6 regardless of human final decision-making. Because it evaluates and ranks identifiable natural persons (applicants) using their personal data, it also constitutes profiling, increasing governance and oversight expectations.

This use case determines access to an essential private service—consumer credit—by generating a risk score that directly drives approval/rejection and loan terms, which falls under Annex III ‘essential services’ and therefore qualifies as high-risk under Art. 6. The system performs profiling of natural persons (creditworthiness scoring based on personal data) and is intended to be fully automated, increasing regulatory scrutiny and requiring strong human oversight measures even if the business process aims for automation. Because outcomes have significant effects on individuals (credit access, pricing, limits), both EU AI Act high-risk obligations and GDPR automated decision-making safeguards are triggered.

This use case falls under EU AI Act Art. 6 high-risk because it is used for access to and management of education/vocational training, specifically admissions pre-screening, which is listed in Annex III category (education_training). The system scores and ranks individual applicants and the ranking directly determines who proceeds to interviews, meaning it materially influences access to education opportunities and raises discrimination and due-process risks. It is not prohibited under Art. 5 (no social scoring by public authorities outside the banned context, no emotion recognition, no remote biometric identification), but it triggers the full high-risk lifecycle obligations (Arts. 9–15).

This system is used to manage and operate the national high-voltage electricity grid by forecasting demand and automatically triggering switching/load-balancing commands. AI used in the management and operation of critical infrastructure is classified as high-risk under Art. 6 in conjunction with Annex III (critical infrastructure), because malfunction can cause significant harm (e.g., outages/blackouts). The use case does not match Art. 5 prohibited practices (no social scoring, biometric identification, manipulation, or workplace/education emotion recognition). Because it directly controls operational grid switching, high-risk obligations (risk management, documentation, logging, oversight, robustness/cybersecurity, and conformity assessment) are typically expected.