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Education AI listed as high-risk

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Under the EU AI Act, Annex III point 3, headed "Education and vocational training", lists as high-risk the AI systems intended to be used to determine access or admission or to assign natural persons to educational and vocational training institutions (point (a)); to evaluate learning outcomes, including when those outcomes are used to steer the learning process of natural persons in such institutions (point (b)); for the purpose of assessing the appropriate level of education that an individual will receive or will be able to access, in the context of or within such institutions (point (c)); and for monitoring and detecting prohibited behaviour of students during tests in the context of or within such institutions (point (d)); in each case at all levels.

At a glance

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Point 3(a): access and admission

  • Determining access or admission to educational and vocational training institutions
  • Assigning natural persons to such institutions

Point 3(b): learning outcomes

  • Evaluating learning outcomes
  • Including when those outcomes are used to steer the learning process

Point 3(c): level of education

  • Assessing the appropriate level of education an individual will receive or be able to access

Point 3(d): tests

  • Monitoring and detecting prohibited behaviour of students during tests

Common to all four points

  • The list covers what a system is intended to be used for
  • Educational and vocational training institutions at all levels
Kind of evidence
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The evidence

High-risk AI systems pursuant to Article 6(2) are the AI systems listed in any of the following areas: [...] 3. Education and vocational training: (a) AI systems intended to be used to determine access or admission or to assign natural persons to educational and vocational training institutions at all levels; (b) AI systems intended to be used to evaluate learning outcomes, including when those outcomes are used to steer the learning process of natural persons in educational and vocational training institutions at all levels; (c) AI systems intended to be used for the purpose of assessing the appropriate level of education that an individual will receive or will be able to access, in the context of or within educational and vocational training institutions at all levels; (d) AI systems intended to be used for monitoring and detecting prohibited behaviour of students during tests in the context of or within educational and vocational training institutions at all levels.

Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Annex III, lead-in and point 3, in the consolidated text CELEX 02024R1689 as consolidated on 27 July 2026 (English). Read on 2026-10-25 from the file saved at sources/eu-ai-act/02024R1689-20260727-consolidated-EN.html, downloaded from EUR-Lex on 2026-10-08, through its plain-text extraction out/legal/consolidated-en.txt. Annex III opens under the base marker (the last marker before it closes the M1 insertion of point 21 of Annex I) and no marker follows until after Annex III, so point 3 was not amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744., read

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