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
/api/system-interview/next bearer Run one turn of the AI-led system interview
/api/risk-classification/classify/{system_id} bearer Start an async risk classification
/api/risk-classification/jobs/{job_id} bearer Poll an async classification job
/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
- Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (EU AI Act) · CELEX 32024R1689
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