High-risk AI systems pursuant to Article 6(2) are the AI systems listed in any of the following areas: [...] 4. Employment, workers' management and access to self-employment: (a) AI systems intended to be used for the recruitment or selection of natural persons, in particular to place targeted job advertisements, to analyse and filter job applications, and to evaluate candidates; (b) AI systems intended to be used to make decisions affecting terms of work-related relationships, the promotion or termination of work-related contractual relationships, to allocate tasks based on individual behaviour or personal traits or characteristics or to monitor and evaluate the performance and behaviour of persons in such relationships.
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Employment AI listed as high-risk
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Under the EU AI Act, Annex III point 4, headed "Employment, workers' management and access to self-employment", lists as high-risk the AI systems intended to be used for the recruitment or selection of natural persons, in particular to place targeted job advertisements, to analyse and filter job applications, and to evaluate candidates (point (a)); and the AI systems intended to be used to make decisions affecting terms of work-related relationships, the promotion or termination of work-related contractual relationships, to allocate tasks based on individual behaviour or personal traits or characteristics, or to monitor and evaluate the performance and behaviour of persons in such relationships (point (b)).
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Point 4(a): recruitment or selection
- Placing targeted job advertisements
- Analysing and filtering job applications
- Evaluating candidates
Point 4(b): people already in a work relationship
- Making decisions affecting terms of work-related relationships
- Making decisions on the promotion or termination of work-related contractual relationships
- Allocating tasks based on individual behaviour or personal traits or characteristics
- Monitoring and evaluating the performance and behaviour of persons in such relationships
Where the book relies on it
- The AI Act at Work: Hiring and Managing People with AI, What you may never do at work. About The AI Act at Work: Hiring and Managing People with AI
- The AI Act at Work: Hiring and Managing People with AI, What the law calls employment AI. About The AI Act at Work: Hiring and Managing People with AI
- The AI Act at Work: Hiring and Managing People with AI, Help with writing, or a say in someone's life. About The AI Act at Work: Hiring and Managing People with AI
- The AI Act at Work: Hiring and Managing People with AI, Shifts, tasks and scores. About The AI Act at Work: Hiring and Managing People with AI
- Kind of evidence
- documentarySettled by a first-hand source, quoted below with the day it was read.
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