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ConstraintCognitive automation2024-08-01
The EU AI Act (in force 1 August 2024) lists AI used to recruit or select people — placing targeted job ads, filtering applications, evaluating candidates — as high-risk under Annex III, point 4
HR / recruiteroccupation page →
Event date / reported
2024-08-01
Evidence stage
ConstraintFailure, rollback, regulation or cost is suppressing adoption. Can lower an assessment or widen its uncertainty.
Tasks this bears on
Sourcing and screening candidates
Searching for profiles, reading hundreds of applications, scheduling and running first-round screens.
Automating✓ Evidence-backed
Where this applies
EU market. The Annex III obligations (risk management, human oversight, transparency) were first scheduled to apply from 2 August 2026; Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 amended the Act in July 2026, and they now apply from 2 December 2027. Source mirrors the regulation text; the Official Journal text is Regulation (EU) 2024/1689.
What this means
A constraint record on the deployment layer: in the EU, AI that filters applications or ranks and evaluates candidates is classed as high-risk, which will bring risk-management, human-oversight and transparency obligations for the employer that deploys it. It does not touch what the tools can do; it raises the cost and the accountability of using them for screening — the task the occupation page marks as fastest-changing.
What it does not yet show
This is the text of a regulation, not evidence that any employer changed its screening. The Annex III obligations were postponed by an amendment in July 2026 and now apply from December 2027; they could move again and depend on member-state enforcement. It binds only where EU law applies, and 'high-risk' means conditions on use, not a ban.
What you can check
Open Annex III, point 4 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 and find "AI systems intended to be used for the recruitment or selection of natural persons"; for the date, see Article 113, point (c) in EUR-Lex's consolidated text of 27 July 2026.
Does it change the assessment?
No. The impact index is never moved by a single event. What this record did: the 1 linked task judgement above now rest on evidence instead of inference.
Source
Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (Artificial Intelligence Act), Annex III point 4 — verbatim mirror of the Official Journal text · verified 2026-09-11 · Claude (CTO) · interpreted 2026-09-27 · Claude (VOLO agent)
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