Human oversight: Which specific requirement does this obligation describe?
Enabling assigned persons to supervise a running high-risk system and intervene or halt it is the human oversight requirement.
The question
Under the EU AI Act, high-risk AI systems must be designed so that designated natural persons can monitor the system while in use and step in or stop it when needed. Which specific requirement does this obligation describe?
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- Human oversight, letting assigned persons monitor the running system and intervene in or halt its operation ✓Correct: human oversight requires that the system be built so people can effectively supervise it and intervene or stop it.
- Data governance, ensuring training and validation datasets are relevant, representative and suitably examinedPlausible high-risk requirement, but data governance concerns dataset quality, not the ability of a person to intervene.
- Quality management, keeping a documented system of the policies and procedures used to show complianceAlso a genuine high-risk duty, but it governs internal process documentation rather than real-time human supervision.
- Record-keeping, having the system automatically log events over its lifetime to support later traceabilityA real obligation, yet logging supports traceability after the fact rather than enabling a person to intervene live.
The trap
Treating every high-risk obligation as 'human oversight' rather than isolating the one about live intervention. How to remember it
Enabling assigned persons to supervise a running high-risk system and intervene or halt it is the human oversight requirement.
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