1. Any affected person subject to a decision which is taken by the deployer on the basis of the output from a high-risk AI system listed in Annex III, with the exception of systems listed under point 2 thereof, and which produces legal effects or similarly significantly affects that person in a way that they consider to have an adverse impact on their health, safety or fundamental rights shall have the right to obtain from the deployer clear and meaningful explanations of the role of the AI system in the decision-making procedure and the main elements of the decision taken. 2. Paragraph 1 shall not apply to the use of AI systems for which exceptions from, or restrictions to, the obligation under that paragraph follow from Union or national law in compliance with Union law. 3. This Article shall apply only to the extent that the right referred to in paragraph 1 is not otherwise provided for under Union law.
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The right to an explanation of an individual decision
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Under the EU AI Act, any affected person subject to a decision taken by the deployer on the basis of the output of a high-risk AI system listed in Annex III, other than the systems in point 2, which produces legal effects or similarly significantly affects them in a way they consider to have an adverse impact on their health, safety or fundamental rights, has the right to obtain from the deployer clear and meaningful explanations of the role of the AI system in the decision-making procedure and of the main elements of the decision taken. The right does not apply where Union or national law, in compliance with Union law, provides exceptions or restrictions, and applies only to the extent it is not otherwise provided for under Union law.
At a glance
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Who has the right
- An affected person subject to a decision taken by the deployer on the basis of the output of a high-risk system listed in Annex III, except point 2
- where the decision produces legal effects or similarly significantly affects them in a way they consider adverse to their health, safety or fundamental rights
What they may obtain from the deployer
- Clear and meaningful explanations of the role of the AI system in the decision-making procedure
- and of the main elements of the decision taken
Limits
- Exceptions or restrictions following from Union or national law in compliance with Union law
- Applies only to the extent the right is not otherwise provided for under Union law
Where the book relies on it
- The AI Act at Work: Hiring and Managing People with AI, When someone asks why. About The AI Act at Work: Hiring and Managing People with AI
- The AI Act at Work: Hiring and Managing People with AI, One company, one year. 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.
The evidence
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