Which of the following is an example of a high-risk application under the EU AI Act?

Question

Options

• AA resume scanning tool that ranks applicants.
• BAn AI-enabled inventory management tool.
• CA government-run social scoring tool.
• DA customer service chatbot tool.

• A
  88% (29)
• B
  3% (1)
• C
  6% (2)
• D
  3% (1)

Explanation

A resume scanning tool that ranks job applicants falls squarely into the EU AI Act's Annex III high-risk category, which explicitly lists AI systems used in employment decisions - including recruitment, screening, and evaluation of candidates - as high-risk because they significantly affect people's livelihoods and opportunity.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• B (inventory management): This is a purely operational business tool with no significant impact on people's rights or safety - it falls outside high-risk categories.
• C (social scoring): This is actually banned outright under the EU AI Act (an "unacceptable risk" practice), not merely "high-risk." It's a higher tier of concern entirely.
• D (customer service chatbot): General-purpose chatbots are not in Annex III; they carry transparency obligations but are not classified as high-risk.

Memory tip: Think of high-risk AI as systems that make or influence decisions about people in critical domains - employment, credit, education, law enforcement, healthcare. Social scoring isn't just risky, it's prohibited. If an answer sounds totalitarian rather than just consequential, it's likely the "banned" category, not merely "high-risk."

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