How do I tell which EU AI Act category our AI use case falls in?

The AI Act has prohibited practices, high-risk systems, limited-risk (transparency) and minimal-risk. Effective dates phase in. Category drives your obligations.

Try this first

1. 1Start with the exclusions. Prohibited practices such as government social scoring or certain biometric identification are banned from February 2025 in the EU.
2. 2Check the high-risk annexes. Hiring, access to education, credit scoring, critical infrastructure and some law-enforcement tools typically land here.
3. 3Limited risk. Chatbots, generated content (deepfakes) and emotion recognition mostly require user-facing transparency.
4. 4GPAI models. Providers of general-purpose AI models get specific documentation and transparency duties under the AI Act from August 2025.
5. 5Document the classification and the rationale. When in doubt go stricter until the regulator clarifies your case.

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