Human oversight: Which EU AI Act requirement is the regulator specifically invoking here?
Enabling a qualified person to interpret, override and stop the system's operation is the human oversight requirement.
The question
A hospital deploys a high-risk AI system that flags patients for urgent intervention. Regulators require that a qualified clinician be able to understand the system's output, decide whether to follow or override it, and stop the system if needed. The hospital already keeps logs and has published technical documentation. Which EU AI Act requirement is the regulator specifically invoking here?
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- Record keeping, ensuring event logs are automatically generated and retained throughout the system's lifecyclePlausible but wrong: the hospital already keeps logs; the described override-and-stop capability is human oversight, not logging.
- Technical documentation, ensuring the system's design and capabilities are fully described for the authorities to reviewPlausible but wrong: documentation is already published; it does not provide the real-time override and intervention described.
- Data governance, ensuring training and testing datasets are relevant, representative and appropriately managedPlausible but wrong: data governance concerns dataset quality, not a clinician's ability to override outputs in operation.
- Human oversight, ensuring a competent person can interpret, override and intervene in the system's operation ✓Correct: enabling a qualified person to understand, override and stop the system is precisely the human oversight requirement.
The trap
Attributing the real-time override/stop capability to logging or documentation rather than human oversight. How to remember it
Enabling a qualified person to interpret, override and stop the system's operation is the human oversight requirement.
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