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Systemic risk

A risk specific to the high-impact capabilities of general-purpose AI models, having a significant impact on the Union market due to their reach, or due to actual or reasonably foreseeable negative effects on public health, safety, public security, fundamental rights, or society as a whole, that can propagate at scale across the value chain (Article 3(65), Regulation (EU) 2024/1689).

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

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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

A risk specific to the high-impact capabilities of general-purpose AI models, having a significant impact on the Union market due to their reach, or due to actual or reasonably foreseeable negative effects on public health, safety, public security, fundamental rights, or society as a whole, that can propagate at scale across the value chain (Article 3(65), Regulation (EU) 2024/1689).

AI Governance: Applied Mastery

A larger, related fear than aggregation: aggregation describes many similar claims from one shared cause, while systemic risk describes those claims cascading into market-wide instability and drawing coordinated regulatory intervention across a sector. It is the version of correlated AI risk that can make a peril effectively uninsurable rather than merely expensive.

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