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Broadly positioned and general purpose AI systems: a disclaimer is not enough

If you market a system broadly without consistently limiting its application, high-risk use cases will be read into its intended purpose. Merely stating in the terms of service that high-risk uses are excluded is insufficient where the rest of your presentation in fact enables or promotes such uses.

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Identifier: praxikon:eu:ai-act:guidance:guidance-high-risk-broad-marketing-and-gpai-systems
Payload hash (sha256): 81fc87af44dd5631c6f242e98843aada30a807c4dcf29a9aafaa85879df1c01a

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Praxikon, "Broadly positioned and general purpose AI systems: a disclaimer is not enough", praxikon:eu:ai-act:guidance:guidance-high-risk-broad-marketing-and-gpai-systems@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 81fc87af44dd5631c6f242e98843aada30a807c4dcf29a9aafaa85879df1c01a

Version: 1.0.0
Legal time (effective_at): 8 August 2026
Knowledge time (known_at): 8 August 2026
Closed on: Not closed
Topics: guidance

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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- Draft guidelines on the classification of high-risk AI systems
  Locator: Draft guidelines on high-risk AI classification (19 May 2026), General principles chapter, section II.2, paragraph (12)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:commission-draft-high-risk-classification-guidelines
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- ObligationAnnex III: high-risk AI
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:obligation:annex-iii-high-risk

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- Draft guidelines on the classification of high-risk AI systems
  Locator: Draft guidelines on high-risk AI classification (19 May 2026), General principles chapter, section II.2, paragraph (12)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:commission-draft-high-risk-classification-guidelines
  Open official source
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  praxikon:eu:ai-act:actor:deployer
- ActorProvider of an AI system
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:actor:provider

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According to the non-binding draft guidelines of 19 May 2026 on the classification of high-risk AI, paragraph (12) provides that where the instructions for use, contractual arrangements, terms of service, usage policy, promotional and sales materials or technical documentation present the AI system as broadly applicable across a generality of contexts and functions, and do not consistently limit its application or exclude high-risk uses, the system's intended purpose will be deemed to also encompass high-risk use cases and therefore qualify as high-risk. Under these draft guidelines this applies in particular where such uses are feasible and reasonably foreseeable given the system's functionalities and capabilities. The same paragraph states that merely asserting, for example in the terms of service, that high-risk uses are excluded is insufficient where the provider's overall presentation, examples or product positioning effectively provides for or promotes such uses, and that any limitations of use must be described clearly, concretely and coherently across all materials.
- Locator: Draft guidelines on high-risk AI classification (19 May 2026), General principles chapter, section II.2, paragraph (12)praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:commission-draft-high-risk-classification-guidelinesOpen official source

Our interpretation

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

This mainly affects providers of broad assistants, agents and platforms who say the product is not meant for HR, education or credit assessment, but show demos, templates or customer stories in exactly those contexts. The draft guidelines look at the whole of your communications, not at the strictest sentence in the small print. For buyers it means a vendor hiding behind a clause does not relieve you of your own assessment.
- Locator: Draft guidelines on high-risk AI classification (19 May 2026), General principles chapter, section II.2, paragraph (12)praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:commission-draft-high-risk-classification-guidelinesOpen official source

Recommended step

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

If you genuinely want to exclude high-risk use, make that real in the product and not only on paper. Remove demos and examples in excluded domains, build technical or contractual blocks, and make sure sales, website and documentation draw the same line. If you cannot sustain that, assume high-risk and build your evidence file accordingly.
- Locator: Draft guidelines on high-risk AI classification (19 May 2026), General principles chapter, section II.2, paragraph (12)praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:commission-draft-high-risk-classification-guidelinesOpen official source

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Praxikon, "Broadly positioned and general purpose AI systems: a disclaimer is not enough",
praxikon:eu:ai-act:guidance:guidance-high-risk-broad-marketing-and-gpai-systems@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 81fc87af44dd5631c6f242e98843aada30a807c4dcf29a9aafaa85879df1c01a,
https://www.praxikon.com/en/verkenner/guidance/guidance-high-risk-broad-marketing-and-gpai-systems
(https://www.praxikon.com/api/v1/entities?id=praxikon%3Aeu%3Aai-act%3Aguidance%3Aguidance-high-risk-broad-marketing-and-gpai-systems&effective_at=2026-08-08&known_at=2026-08-08&lang=en, accessed 2026-08-25)

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praxikon:eu:ai-act:guidance:guidance-high-risk-broad-marketing-and-gpai-systems@1.0.0 (sha256 81fc87af)

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  author       = {{Praxikon}},
  title        = {Broadly positioned and general purpose AI systems: a disclaimer is not enough},
  year         = {2026},
  version      = {1.0.0},
  number       = {praxikon:eu:ai-act:guidance:guidance-high-risk-broad-marketing-and-gpai-systems},
  howpublished = {AI Act Change \& Evidence Graph, dataset 2.1.0, schema 1.4.0},
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  url          = {https://www.praxikon.com/en/verkenner/guidance/guidance-high-risk-broad-marketing-and-gpai-systems},
  urldate      = {2026-08-25},
  language     = {en}
}

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