# Use high-risk AI as instructed, monitor it and inform affected people

- **Record type**: Obligation
- **Instrument**: Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 — Artificial Intelligence Act
- **Jurisdiction**: European Union
- **Category**: governance_accountability
- **Binding**: Yes
- **Applies from**: 2027-12-02
- **Provision**: Article 26

## In brief

Use high-risk AI as instructed, monitor it and inform affected people is a legal requirement under the EU AI Act in the European Union (Article 26). It applies from 2 December 2027. The record carries 2 evidence examples and mappings to 2 frameworks. In practice: Create a deployer checklist per high-risk system and a notice for affected individuals and workers.

## What the duty requires

Deployers of high-risk AI must take technical and organisational measures to use systems according to the instructions, assign human oversight, ensure input data is relevant where they control it, monitor operation, inform the provider and authorities of risks or serious incidents, keep logs, inform workers' representatives before deploying at the workplace, inform affected natural persons where decisions are made about them, and cooperate with authorities.

## What an organisation does about it

Create a deployer checklist per high-risk system and a notice for affected individuals and workers.

## Controls that meet this duty

- Human oversight design and override procedure (supports): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/human-oversight-and-override
- Post-deployment monitoring and drift detection (supports): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/post-market-monitoring-and-drift-detection
- AI interaction and use disclosure notices (supports): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/ai-interaction-and-use-disclosure

## Parent instrument

- Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 — Artificial Intelligence Act
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/eu-ai-act
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/eu-ai-act.md

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-OBL-0015 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0015; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/eu-ai-act-deployer-obligations
- **Official source**: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj
- **Provision**: Article 26
- **Review status**: pending review
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: never confirmed against the official source
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- **Cite as**: AIPolicyTracker (2026). "Use high-risk AI as instructed, monitor it and inform affected people (EU AI Act)" [AIPT-OBL-0015, not yet verified]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0015 (accessed 27 October 2026).

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