Article 14: Human Oversight
Article 14 requires high-risk systems to be designed to allow effective human oversight during use, through measures built into the system by the provider and/or measures the deployer can apply. The goal is enabling people overseeing the system to understand its capacity and limitations, monitor for anomalies, and intervene or stop the system where needed.
- 02 Dec 2027 Applies to Annex III high-risk systems
- 02 Aug 2028 Applies to Annex I embedded high-risk systems
- Build in oversight tools appropriate to the system, such as interpretability aids, alerts, or stop functions.
- Enable overseers to correctly interpret the system's output and disregard, override, or reverse it where appropriate.
- Enable a mechanism to intervene in the system's operation or stop it through a stop button or similar procedure.
- Ensure oversight is assigned to individuals with the competence, training, and authority needed to exercise it, as reinforced by deployer duties under Article 26(2).
- Human-machine interface design documentation showing oversight measures
Article 14 is often read as mandating a human review of every individual output; the Act instead requires effective oversight capability — which can include automated safeguards — not universal human-in-the-loop review.
What regulators published on Art. 14
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- Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 on EUR-Lex
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