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EU AI Act for Insurers: Which Insurance AI Is High-Risk?

Life and health underwriting and pricing AI is high-risk under Annex III point 5(c). Motor and home pricing, claims triage and fraud detection mostly aren't. What insurers and insurtechs owe, with dates as of November 2026, a table and a checklist.

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Biometric AI under the EU AI Act: Verification vs Identification

Face login, selfie ID checks, age estimation, emotion detection: which biometric AI is banned, which is high-risk and which falls outside Annex III? The verification exemption explained, with dates as of November 2026, a table and a checklist.

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Article 6(3) Exemption: What the Commission's Draft High-Risk Guidelines Allow

The Commission's draft Article 6 guidelines show which Annex III AI features can escape high-risk status under Article 6(3), and which can't. Worked examples, the profiling test, the split-architecture trap and the four-part memo, ahead of final guidelines due by the end of 2026.

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EU AI Act for EdTech: Proctoring, Grading and the Emotion-Recognition Ban

Admissions, grading, placement and proctoring AI is high-risk under Annex III point 3 from 2 December 2027. Emotion recognition in schools has been banned since February 2025. A feature-by-feature map for EdTech teams.

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How Legal Departments Use AI — and What the Act Says

In-house teams use AI for NDAs, DPAs, research, and e-discovery. That is usually not Annex III point 8. Courts using the same tools is a different story.

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How HR Tech Works with Regulators on Hiring AI

Hiring AI is Annex III point 4. Vendors work with regulators through sandboxes, the AI Pact, national market surveillance, and — already — the EDPS job-matching pilot.

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How to Classify an AI System under the EU AI Act

A seven-step classification you can finish in an afternoon: prohibited, Annex I, Annex III, the Article 6(3) exit, and what to file if you claim you are not high-risk.

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EU AI Act Credit Scoring: Annex III for Fintech

Creditworthiness AI is high-risk. Fraud detection is not. How Annex III point 5(b) and 5(c) treat scoring, BNPL, and life or health insurance pricing.

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Customer-Service Chatbots: Limited or High-Risk?

Most support bots are limited-risk and need Article 50 by 2 August 2026. Here is when a refund, claims, or eligibility bot quietly becomes Annex III.

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What Actually Counts as a 'High-Risk' AI System Under the EU AI Act?

High-risk isn't about how advanced your model is — it's about what decision it touches. Here's the full Annex III list, the Article 6 classification logic, and the one exemption that can take you back out of high-risk.

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Is Your HR AI Actually High-Risk? The Annex III Category 4 Test, Decoded

Annex III category 4 covers AI in employment and recruitment — but the trigger is 'appreciable impact on career prospects,' not 'makes the final hiring decision.' Here's how to apply the test.

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