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Improving is deliberately different from reviewing

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Identifier: praxikon:eu:ai-act:guidance:guidance-high-risk-improve-not-review
Payload hash (sha256): 656a4e99b759d1c8c8dd12d60ae912d80508379745a885f99fa72e1e825b230b

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Praxikon, "Improving is deliberately different from reviewing", praxikon:eu:ai-act:guidance:guidance-high-risk-improve-not-review@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 656a4e99b759d1c8c8dd12d60ae912d80508379745a885f99fa72e1e825b230b

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: Section IV.2.7.1(b), paragraphs 94 to 96
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:commission-draft-high-risk-classification-guidelines
  Open official source
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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: Section IV.2.7.1(b), paragraphs 94 to 96
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:commission-draft-high-risk-classification-guidelines
  Open official source
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- ActorDeployer
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:actor:deployer
- ActorProvider of an AI system
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:actor:provider

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The draft guidelines of 19 May 2026 are a non-binding draft and state in paragraphs 94 to 96 that Article 6(3)(b) requires three cumulative elements: a human activity that has been completed, a result flowing from it, and improvement of that result by the AI system. The system may therefore not replace or autonomously perform the human activity. The draft notes the EU legislature deliberately chose the word improve rather than review, so the system must not be intended to provide a materially different result but to verify or refine the activity, and that any improvement must not change the rights, protection, legal or economic position of the persons affected. As an example that does not qualify, the draft cites a system that checks a human-made decision, plan or construction and provides a substantially different solution. As examples serving an auxiliary improvement function, the draft cites systems that flag errors or contradictions in finalised human work as quality assurance, systems that map conclusions to evidentiary records to strengthen traceability of a decision without substituting human judgment, and systems that convert human-validated content for interoperability or accessibility purposes.
- Locator: Section IV.2.7.1(b), paragraphs 94 to 96praxikon: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 condition is narrower than it sounds. A writing assistant that sharpens the wording of a completed judgment fits; a second-opinion model that redoes the judgment does not, however useful it may be substantively.
- Locator: Section IV.2.7.1(b), paragraphs 94 to 96praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:commission-draft-high-risk-classification-guidelinesOpen official source

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Make the sequence in your process demonstrable: the human judgment is recorded first, only then does the system act. Record that scores, conclusions and outcomes are not altered by the system.
- Locator: Section IV.2.7.1(b), paragraphs 94 to 96praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:commission-draft-high-risk-classification-guidelinesOpen official source

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Reference

Praxikon, "Improving is deliberately different from reviewing",
praxikon:eu:ai-act:guidance:guidance-high-risk-improve-not-review@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 656a4e99b759d1c8c8dd12d60ae912d80508379745a885f99fa72e1e825b230b,
https://www.praxikon.com/en/verkenner/guidance/guidance-high-risk-improve-not-review
(https://www.praxikon.com/api/v1/entities?id=praxikon%3Aeu%3Aai-act%3Aguidance%3Aguidance-high-risk-improve-not-review&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-improve-not-review@1.0.0 (sha256 656a4e99)

BibTeX

@misc{praxikon-eu-ai-act-guidance-guidance-high-risk-improve-not-review-1-0-0,
  author       = {{Praxikon}},
  title        = {Improving is deliberately different from reviewing},
  year         = {2026},
  version      = {1.0.0},
  number       = {praxikon:eu:ai-act:guidance:guidance-high-risk-improve-not-review},
  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 656a4e99b759d1c8c8dd12d60ae912d80508379745a885f99fa72e1e825b230b},
  url          = {https://www.praxikon.com/en/verkenner/guidance/guidance-high-risk-improve-not-review},
  urldate      = {2026-08-25},
  language     = {en}
}

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