Serious incident (EU AI Act)
Under Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, an incident that directly or indirectly leads, or might lead, to the death of a person or serious harm to health, a serious and irreversible disruption of critical infrastructure, an infringement of Union law protecting fundamental rights, or serious harm to property or the environment.
Defined in 2 GAGE programs, which carry 2 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in Certified AI Governance Professional (CAIGP).
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.
Under Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, an incident that directly or indirectly leads, or might lead, to the death of a person or serious harm to health, a serious and irreversible disruption of critical infrastructure, an infringement of Union law protecting fundamental rights, or serious harm to property or the environment.
A malfunction or defect in an AI system that causes or is likely to cause a breach of obligations under Union law intended to protect fundamental rights, among other triggering conditions, subject to mandatory reporting to the relevant market surveillance authority under Article 73.
Where it is taught
The exact lessons this term appears in. The first module of every program is free with a free account.
- The wrong data fed the model: the recall decision for an AI system in production · Data Incidents, Certified AI Data Governance Professional (CADGP)
- The First 48 Hours of an AI Incident · Shipping AI and Surviving the Incident, Certified AI Governance Professional (CAIGP)
Where it shows up at work
A definition is where Serious incident (EU AI Act) starts. The lessons above teach it inside the competencies below, which are what job descriptions ask for and what the GAGE credential records. Every link here is drawn from the same careers map that builds a role's readiness check.
Classifies AI incidents by severity, runs containment, preserves evidence, manages notification, and closes the loop with lessons learned.
2 lessons on this page teach it as a primary outcome.
Profiles data, sets rules and thresholds, monitors, assigns issues to owners, and knows when data is not fit to train or run a model.
One lesson on this page teach it as a primary outcome.
Roles that hire for it
Each role page shows the full competency set, what the seat decides, and a readiness check against your own evidence.
- Chief Information Security Officer, AI security focusneeds it at depth
- AI Incident Response Leadneeds it at depth · 1 open posting this week
- Chief Data Officer, data leadership editionneeds it at depth
- Chief Privacy Officer, AI privacy editionneeds working knowledge
- Chief Risk Officer, AI risk editionneeds working knowledge
- AI Security Architectneeds working knowledge · 8 open postings this week
How job descriptions say it
Postings rarely use the textbook word. These are the phrases the careers map reads as asking for the competencies above.
Where the frameworks place it: EU AI Act Article 73; ISO/IEC 42001 Annex A incident controls; NIST AI RMF MANAGE 4; EU AI Act Article 10.
One interview question about it
An AI system has just caused harm to a customer. Walk me through the first 48 hours.
Asked of candidates for ai incident response and recovery. Answering it in your own words is exactly how a GAGE topic is passed, and the credential records the pass where an employer can check it.
If you come from another field
Some backgrounds already carry this competency, and the readiness check gives credit for it.
- Cybersecurity and IT carries it as work you can show: Incident playbooks and post-incident reviews are your artifacts.
- A cybersecurity or information assurance degree carries it as a claim to back up: Incident response is a course; AI incidents add model failure to the playbook.
- Data analysis, stewardship and business intelligence carries it as work you can show: Quality rules and profiling results are your artifacts.
Terms it appears with
Not an alphabetical neighbourhood: these are the terms taught in the same lessons, ranked by how often they appear together.