Valentina Remonato

Making the input conditions established by the provider explicit and traceable reduces the information asymmetry between providers and deployers. Many deployers in the European market are SMEs. Under the AI Act they must use high-risk systems in accordance with the instructions for use and assign human oversight, but they can only do so if the conditions under which the validated operational domain holds are documented and verifiable. Expressing that within the existing standards, rather than as a separate family of requirements, keeps the burden proportionate. The effects I would expect over time are lower assessment costs for SMEs deploying AI and fewer barriers to adoption caused by uncertainty about what a system can be relied upon to do. Documenting the human determinations made upstream also keeps the system traceable to the choices that shaped it, which is the condition under which the fundamental rights behind those choices, including freedom of expression, remain meaningful.