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Intended use

The specific purposes and contexts for which a provider has validated and designed an AI system, as specified in the Article 13 instructions for use and the Article 11 technical documentation. Deployment outside the intended use shifts liability toward the deployer under Article 25 of the AI Act and reduces the provider's PLD exposure.

Defined in 2 GAGE programs, which carry 5 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in EU AI Act Implementation Expert.

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.

EU AI Act Implementation Expert

The specific purposes and contexts for which a provider has validated and designed an AI system, as specified in the Article 13 instructions for use and the Article 11 technical documentation. Deployment outside the intended use shifts liability toward the deployer under Article 25 of the AI Act and reduces the provider's PLD exposure.

AI Governance: Applied Mastery

The specific, testable statement of what a model or system is for, who its users are, and in what setting. Narrow enough to evaluate and to write an out-of-scope statement against; a broad intended-use statement ("general classification") is a warning sign because nothing can be validated or excluded against it.

AI Governance: Applied Mastery

A short statement of what the model is for, included in the failure account so a reader can distinguish an in-scope failure (a real problem) from an out-of-scope one (a use the system was never meant to support).

AI Governance: Applied Mastery

What an organization now wants to do with data it already holds. Consent archaeology is the comparison of the intended use against the collection purpose.

AI Governance: Applied Mastery

The section of a card stating the uses the vendor validated the model or system for. The bound your actual use must be checked against.

Where it is taught

The exact lessons this term appears in. The first 7 topics of every program are free with a free account.

Terms it appears with

Not an alphabetical neighbourhood: these are the terms taught in the same lessons, ranked by how often they appear together.