EU AI Act Glossary
Plain-language explanations of the terms that come up most when figuring out what the EU AI Act requires.
What is EU AI Act Annex IV technical documentation?
A plain explanation of what Annex IV of the EU AI Act requires, who needs it, and what each required section covers.
What are the EU AI Act's Annex III high-risk domains?
The eight domains that classify an AI system as high-risk under Annex III of the EU AI Act, explained plainly with examples.
What is an EU AI Act conformity assessment?
How EU AI Act Article 43 conformity assessment works: the two routes (internal control vs. notified body), and which applies to your system.
What makes an AI system 'high-risk' under the EU AI Act?
A clear explanation of what qualifies an AI system as high-risk under the EU AI Act, and what obligations follow from that classification.
What is AI agent compliance documentation?
What it means to document an autonomous AI agent's compliance, and why agent-based systems raise documentation challenges static models don't.
What is tamper-evident compliance evidence?
How cryptographic hashing makes compliance evidence tamper-evident, and why that matters more than a written assertion of compliance.
What is a compliance trust center?
What a public compliance trust center page is, who it's for, and what information it should and shouldn't expose.
What is an audit evidence package?
What a formal audit evidence package for EU AI Act compliance contains, and how it differs from a plain documentation export.