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Digital infrastructure
AI prioritises incidents in a cloud or network operation.
High-risk AI guide · Annex III
Annex III point 2
High-risk AI in critical infrastructure
AI in critical infrastructure turns on operational impact: does the system steer priority, recovery, safety or availability?
What falls in scope?
Critical digital infrastructure.
Road traffic and traffic management.
Water, gas, heating and electricity supply.
AI as safety component or operational decision support.
When to review first?
Incident detection and recovery priority
Traffic lights or incident response
Load forecasting with operational effect
Security or availability decisions
What should a first review deliver?
Operational decision function
Fallback and escalation scenarios
Human override
Robustness, cybersecurity and logging
Recognisable situations
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Traffic
AI supports traffic lights or incident detection.
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Utilities
AI recommends recovery order after disruptions.
Based on official sources
This page is a practical guide for first classification and preparation. For legal decisions, a full system and context review remains necessary.
Other Annex III areas
Annex III point 4
HR and employment
Could the AI affect a person’s job opportunity, evaluation or working conditions?
High-risk AI in HR and employmentAnnex III point 5
Essential services
Could the AI make access to an essential service easier, harder or more expensive?
High-risk AI in essential servicesAnnex III point 3
Education
Does the AI support learning, or does it help decide something about a learner?
High-risk AI in educationAnnex III point 1
Biometrics
Can this biometric AI system be used at all, or does a prohibition need to be checked first?
High-risk AI in biometricsMake this concrete for your systems.
Start with the Gap Intake and share which AI systems, suppliers and processes are in scope. Then we can sharpen the classification and first evidence route.