Engaging in one of the prohibited AI practices: Which category of violation sits in the highest (most severe)
Violating the outright-prohibited AI practices carries the EU AI Act's highest administrative-fine tier.
The question
The EU AI Act uses a tiered administrative-fine structure in which different categories of violation attract different maximum penalty levels. Which category of violation sits in the highest (most severe) fine tier?
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- Failing to meet a clear transparency duty owed for a limited-risk system, such as disclosing AI interactionA real breach, but transparency failures fall in a lower fine tier than prohibited-practice violations.
- Supplying incorrect or misleading information to the competent national authorities on requestGenuinely penalized, yet this sits in the lowest fine tier, not the most severe one.
- Engaging in one of the prohibited AI practices that the regulation bans outright as unacceptable risk ✓Correct: violating the prohibited-practice rules attracts the highest fine tier under the Act's penalty structure.
- Omitting part of the technical documentation required for a deployed high-risk AI systemAn obligation breach that attracts a mid-level fine tier, below the tier for prohibited practices.
The trap
Assuming high-risk obligation breaches, not prohibited practices, carry the top penalty tier. How to remember it
Violating the outright-prohibited AI practices carries the EU AI Act's highest administrative-fine tier.
How many of these would you get right?
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