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EU AI Act: The High-Risk Checklist You Actually Need

Stop reading 144 pages of regulation. Here are the nine obligations every high-risk AI system must satisfy before going live in the EU.

The EU AI Act's high-risk regime (Title III, Chapter 2) is dense, but the operational requirements collapse into nine things.

  1. Risk management system with documented mitigations across the lifecycle.
  2. Data and data governance — training, validation, testing sets that are relevant, representative, and free of obvious errors.
  3. Technical documentation sufficient for a competent authority to assess conformity.
  4. Record-keeping (logs) that allow traceability of operation.
  5. Transparency towards deployers, including instructions for use.
  6. Human oversight designed in, not bolted on.
  7. Accuracy, robustness, cybersecurity declared and measurable.
  8. Quality-management system at the provider organisation.
  9. Conformity assessment + CE marking before placing on the market.

Cross-reference each against your AIMS (ISO 42001) controls and 70% of the documentary effort is already done.