The EU AI Act mandates transparency and human oversight for which type of AI?

• A. High-risk AI
• B. Low-risk AI
• C. Minimal-risk AI
• D. All AI

Answer: (A)

The EU AI Act applies strict transparency and human oversight to systems that are considered high risk because these can have substantial effects on people’s rights and safety. The regulation uses a risk-based approach, reserving the strongest requirements for AI that could cause serious harm—such as systems used in employment, education, law enforcement, or critical infrastructure. For these high‑risk applications, the act demands that users be clearly informed when they’re interacting with an AI, understand what the system is doing and its limitations, and have access to ongoing human oversight to review, intervene, or override decisions if needed. Lower-risk categories aren’t subject to the same rigorous transparency and oversight mandates, and claiming that all AI falls under these requirements would misrepresent the regulation’s risk-based structure.