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Risk classification Updated 2026-08-28

How does Maditon classify an AI system under the EU AI Act?

An AI-led interview asks plain-language questions about what the system does, who it affects and where it operates. Maditon maps the answers against every risk category in Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 — prohibited, high-risk, transparency-only and minimal — and returns a draft classification with the articles it rests on and the regulation text quoted verbatim.

The flow is: register the system, run the interview, receive a draft, accept or override it.

The interview asks about purpose, users, the data involved, the sector, and the effect on people. It is deliberately free of regulatory vocabulary — you describe your product, not your legal position.

The classification checks the answers against the whole risk structure of the regulation, not just the tier it expects: the Article 5 prohibitions, the Article 6 and Annex III high-risk routes, the Article 50 transparency duties, and the residual minimal-risk case. It returns a tier, the reasoning, and citations that quote the passages the tier rests on.

The verification pass then re-checks each conclusion against the retrieved legal text and reports any claim it could not support, with a confidence score. Low-confidence results are raised for expert review instead of being presented as settled.

Acceptance is a separate, human step. Until someone takes it, the result is a draft.

Classification runs asynchronously: start it, then poll the job. A free Solo account runs three of these a month.

Related API endpoints

POST /api/system-interview/next bearer

Run one turn of the AI-led system interview

POST /api/risk-classification/classify/{system_id} bearer

Start an async risk classification

GET /api/risk-classification/jobs/{job_id} bearer

Poll an async classification job

GET /api/risk-classification/{system_id}/latest bearer

Get the latest risk classification for a system

Base URL https://api.maditon.app · full specification at openapi.json

Regulation references

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