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Reasonably foreseeable misuse

Use outside the intended purpose that the provider could have seen coming, and must therefore anticipate.

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Identifier: praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-redelijkerwijs-te-voorzien-misbruik
Payload hash (sha256): 1d878f952a65193ba15fd9063f41f55c720ebde6a05151597fae5090dcedab7c

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Praxikon, "Reasonably foreseeable misuse", praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-redelijkerwijs-te-voorzien-misbruik@1.0.0, dataset praxikon:sys:registry:dataset:ai-act-implementation-graph 2.1.0 (schema 1.4.0), effective_at 2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z, known_at 2026-08-14T00:00:00.000Z, sha256 1d878f952a65193ba15fd9063f41f55c720ebde6a05151597fae5090dcedab7c

Version: 1.0.0
Legal time (effective_at): 8 August 2026
Knowledge time (known_at): 8 August 2026
Closed on: Not closed
Application date: 2 February 2025
Topics: definitions

Review status: Placed against the official source (8 August 2026). Next check due by 4 February 2027. The check date is the knowledge date of this version; no later recheck has been recorded.

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Source
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- EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689
  Locator: Article 3(13)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
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  praxikon:eu:ai-act:actor:provider

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Article 3(13) defines reasonably foreseeable misuse as the use of an AI system in a way that is not in accordance with its intended purpose, but which may result from reasonably foreseeable human behaviour or interaction with other systems, including other AI systems.
- Locator: Article 3(13)praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689Open official source

Our interpretation

Our own reading. It can change without the law changing, and it is not the position of a supervisory authority.

The word misuse suggests bad intent, or a user error. That is the wrong reading. It concerns behaviour that is simply predictable: an employee who also uses a summarisation tool for decision-making, a chatbot receiving questions it was not built for, a model fed input by another system through an integration. The second error is the belief that excluding a use in the manual removes the risk. Not being mentioned in the manual is not the same as not being foreseeable. Note also the explicit mention of interaction with other systems, including other AI systems: chained and agentic set-ups fall squarely within it.
- Locator: Article 3(13)praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689Open official source

Recommended step

A practical step we consider appropriate. Not an obligation following from the Regulation.

Keep a short list per system of foreseeable deviating use, fed by incidents, helpdesk questions and end-user signals, and note for each entry which measure was taken. Include the integrations with other systems explicitly in that list, because that is where use nobody designed emerges.
- Locator: Article 3(13)praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689Open official source

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Praxikon, "Reasonably foreseeable misuse",
praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-redelijkerwijs-te-voorzien-misbruik@1.0.0,
dataset praxikon:sys:registry:dataset:ai-act-implementation-graph 2.1.0 (schema 1.4.0),
effective_at 2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z, known_at 2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z,
sha256 1d878f952a65193ba15fd9063f41f55c720ebde6a05151597fae5090dcedab7c,
https://www.praxikon.com/en/verkenner/definition/definitie-redelijkerwijs-te-voorzien-misbruik
(https://www.praxikon.com/api/v1/entities?id=praxikon%3Aeu%3Aai-act%3Adefinition%3Adefinitie-redelijkerwijs-te-voorzien-misbruik&effective_at=2026-08-08&known_at=2026-08-08&lang=en, accessed 2026-08-23)

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praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-redelijkerwijs-te-voorzien-misbruik@1.0.0 (sha256 1d878f95)

BibTeX

@misc{praxikon-eu-ai-act-definition-definitie-redelijkerwijs-te-voorzien-misbruik-1-0-0,
  author       = {{Praxikon}},
  title        = {Reasonably foreseeable misuse},
  year         = {2026},
  version      = {1.0.0},
  number       = {praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-redelijkerwijs-te-voorzien-misbruik},
  howpublished = {AI Act Change \& Evidence Graph, dataset 2.1.0, schema 1.4.0},
  note         = {effective_at 2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z; known_at 2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z; sha256 1d878f952a65193ba15fd9063f41f55c720ebde6a05151597fae5090dcedab7c},
  url          = {https://www.praxikon.com/en/verkenner/definition/definitie-redelijkerwijs-te-voorzien-misbruik},
  urldate      = {2026-08-23},
  language     = {en}
}

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