Deployer (Article 3(4))
The organization that uses an AI system under its own authority in the course of a professional activity. Deployers carry real but lighter duties than providers, such as using the system per its instructions, ensuring human oversight, and informing affected people where required. Most organizations are deployers of most of their AI.
Defined in 2 GAGE programs, which carry 4 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in AI Governance: Applied Mastery.
How each discipline defines it
The same term does different work depending on who is using it. These are the definitions as each program teaches them, unedited.
The organization that uses an AI system under its own authority in the course of a professional activity. Deployers carry real but lighter duties than providers, such as using the system per its instructions, ensuring human oversight, and informing affected people where required. Most organizations are deployers of most of their AI.
The natural or legal person, authority, agency, or other body that uses an AI system under its own authority, except in a personal non-professional capacity. A deployer's Article 95 code should be scoped to use-side governance practices, not provider-side technical documentation obligations.
An entity that uses an AI system under its own authority, in a professional context, except in a personal non-professional capacity; deployers carry obligations under Article 26 including human oversight assignment, monitoring, and log retention.
Any natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body using an AI system under its own authority, except where the AI system is used in the course of a personal non-professional activity.
Where it is taught
The exact lessons this term appears in. The first 7 topics of every program are free with a free account.
- The two gates: is it an AI system, and does the Act apply to your organization at all · The EU AI Act: The Executive Map, AI Governance: Applied Mastery
- Organizational Positioning: Legal, Compliance, IT, or Operations? · The EU AI Act Expert Role, EU AI Act Implementation Expert
- Transparency and Information to Deployers (Article 13) · High-Risk AI Requirements: The Technical File, EU AI Act Implementation Expert
- Codes of Conduct for Non-High-Risk AI (Article 95) · Governance, Sandboxes, and SME Support, EU AI Act Implementation Expert
Terms it appears with
Not an alphabetical neighbourhood: these are the terms taught in the same lessons, ranked by how often they appear together.