Post-market monitoring

Under the EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689), Article 72, the obligation on providers of high-risk AI systems to actively and continuously collect and review real-world performance data across a system's operational life. The organizational counterpart of the personal frontier hour: a standing duty to keep looking.

the ongoing obligation under Article 72 of the EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689) for providers of high-risk AI systems to keep collecting and analyzing evidence about a deployed system's real-world performance throughout its lifecycle, rather than certifying it once and stopping.

The ongoing, documented collection and analysis of a deployed system's performance across its lifetime. Required for high-risk AI systems under EU AI Act Article 72 (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689) and expected by the NIST AI RMF Manage function. A drift monitoring plan is its operational core.

The system a provider must have in place under Article 72 to monitor a high-risk AI system's performance after it is on the market, collecting field data and feeding problems back into the risk-management system. It is Annex IV slot 9 and the mechanism that keeps the file true over time.

The EU AI Act term for a provider's ongoing watch over how a system behaves once it is in use; the automatically generated logs required by Article 12 are part of what makes this monitoring possible.