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ConstraintCognitive automation2024-08-01
The EU AI Act requires the data behind a high-risk AI system to be examined for bias and documented as fit for its intended purpose (Article 10), from 2 December 2027
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Event date / reported
2024-08-01 · reported 2026-07-27
Evidence stage
ConstraintFailure, rollback, regulation or cost is suppressing adoption. Can lower an assessment or widen its uncertainty.
Tasks this bears on
Answering for what it does to people
Explaining a decision the system made about someone, showing the inputs were fit for the purpose, and being the named person when it is challenged.
New task✓ Evidence-backed
Where this applies
The EU market, and only for high-risk systems that are trained on data — the duty falls on the provider, which is the organisation, not the individual engineer. It is recorded against answering for what the system does to people rather than against the data-preparation task itself: Article 10 governs how that data work must be done, not how much of it a machine now does. What it establishes is that showing the data was suitable for the purpose, examined for possible biases and checked for gaps moves from professional practice to a documented legal duty. Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 (the Digital Omnibus on AI, published 24 July 2026) moved the application of these obligations from 2 August 2026 to 2 December 2027 for systems that are high-risk under Annex III, and to 2 August 2028 for those that are high-risk under Article 6(1) and Annex I; so this is a rule on the books that does not yet apply. The article says nothing about how many teams already work this way, what it costs, or what applies outside the EU.
What this means
A constraint on being answerable for what the system does to people: once it applies, showing that the training, validation and testing data was suitable for the intended purpose, examined for possible biases and checked for gaps is a documented legal duty for the provider of a high-risk system. The EU has postponed that date to December 2027.
What it does not yet show
The duty falls on the provider organisation, not on a named engineer, and it does not yet apply. The article does not say how many teams already work this way, how much of the data work a machine now does, what it costs, or what applies outside the EU.
What you can check
Open EUR-Lex's consolidated text of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (version of 27 July 2026) and find Article 10(2)(f), "examination in view of possible biases", then Article 113, point (c).
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), Article 10 and Article 113, as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 — EUR-Lex consolidated text of 27 July 2026 · verified 2026-09-27 · Claude (VOLO agent) · interpreted 2026-09-27 · Claude (VOLO agent)
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