Manage systemic risk for high-impact general-purpose models

Practical action

Track training compute against the threshold and prepare a safety and security framework before launch.

Who does it apply to?

Providers of general-purpose AI models meeting the systemic-risk criteria.

Actors

General-purpose AI model provider

Sectors

Cross-sector / all sectors

Use cases

Generative AI and foundation models

Applies from: 2 August 2025

Which controls meet this duty?

Satisfies: the control, operated properly, does the work the duty asks for. Supports: it contributes but the duty needs more. Each control page lists every other duty it serves, so work done once can be counted once.

• satisfiesPolicyHead of AI safety · annual
  Frontier model safety and security framework

  Serves 9 recorded duties · evidence: Published frontier safety framework, Dangerous-capability evaluation report, Threshold notification to an authority

  Compute tracking, notification and the safety and security framework.

• satisfiesTechnical measureAI security or safety lead · at launch and on material change
  Adversarial and red-team testing for generative AI

  Serves 8 recorded duties · evidence: Red-team exercise report, Red-team rules of engagement and scenario library, Adversarial findings tracker

  Model evaluation including adversarial testing.

• supportsProcessIncident coordinator · continuous
  AI incident management and regulatory reporting

  Serves 14 recorded duties · evidence: AI incident response playbook, AI incident record, Incident report to an authority

  Tracking and reporting serious incidents to the AI Office.

Templates that cover this duty

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• AI Risk Register (MIT AI Risk Repository taxonomy)

  Register · XLSX · v4

• EU AI Act Role and Risk Classifier

  Checklist · XLSX · v4

• EU AI Act Article 50 Transparency Kit

  Kit · DOCX and XLSX · v32

• NIST AI RMF ↔ EU AI Act ↔ ISO/IEC 42001 Crosswalk

  Crosswalk · XLSX · v3

All 9 templates that cover it →

What evidence would a reviewer expect?

Framework mappings

Original editorial crosswalks. They cite clause numbers only and reproduce no standard text; confidence reflects how direct the mapping is.

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Frequently asked questions

Cite this record

AIPolicyTracker (2026). “Manage systemic risk for high-impact general-purpose models (EU AI Act)” [AIPT-OBL-0019, not yet verified]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0019 (accessed 27 October 2026). Data licensed CC BY 4.0.

Permanent id AIPT-OBL-0019: it never changes or gets reused, and its address keeps working if this page moves.

Cite the official text alongside it: Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2024 laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence, Official Journal of the European Union, https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj.

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  title        = {{Manage systemic risk for high-impact general-purpose models (EU AI Act)}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/eu-ai-act-gpai-systemic-risk}},
  url          = {https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/eu-ai-act-gpai-systemic-risk},
  urldate      = {2026-10-27},
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Change history

Similar obligations in other instruments

• Large frontier developers must publish a frontier AI framework — California SB 53, California (United States)
• Large frontier developers must send periodic summaries of catastrophic-risk assessments to the state — California SB 53, California (United States)
• Operators of AI above the compute threshold must run lifecycle risk management and report safety results — AI Basic Act, South Korea
• Measure and test trustworthiness characteristics (Measure) — NIST AI RMF, United States (voluntary)