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Before deployment and refreshed when material changes: When should the impact assessment be performed relative

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An impact assessment is performed before deployment and refreshed on material change, not delayed until after go-live.

The question

A public agency plans to deploy an AI system that will affect individuals' access to a benefit, a use with clear potential to impact their rights. When should the impact assessment be performed relative to deployment?

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  1. Only once, immediately after the system has been live long enough to gather a full year of real production usage data from the affected population.
    Wrong because waiting a year to assess exposes affected individuals to unassessed rights risks in the interim.
  2. Only if an affected individual files a formal complaint, since an assessment is a response to demonstrated harm rather than a preventive governance measure.
    Wrong because impact assessments are preventive and should precede deployment, not await complaints.
  3. Before deployment and refreshed when material changes occur, so risks to affected individuals are identified early and re-evaluated across the system's lifecycle. ✓
    Correct because an impact assessment is a pre-deployment activity that is revisited as the system or its context changes.
  4. After the public launch, so that the assessment can incorporate real customer sentiment and early adoption figures gathered during the initial marketing campaign period.
    Plausible but wrong because tying the assessment to launch metrics defeats its preventive, pre-deployment purpose.
The trap
Treating an impact assessment as a reactive or post-launch step rather than a pre-deployment, lifecycle activity.

How to remember it

An impact assessment is performed before deployment and refreshed on material change, not delayed until after go-live.

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