Designated Systemic-Risk Model
designated-systemic · Risk classification
A general-purpose AI model that has been formally designated by the EU AI Office under Article 51(1)(b) as posing systemic risk, regardless of whether it meets the presumption thresholds.
Definition and scope
Designation is the formal regulatory act by which a GPAI model becomes subject to Article 55 obligations. Two paths: (1) presumption — automatic when training compute ≥10²⁵ FLOPs OR EU MAU ≥45M; or (2) explicit designation by the AI Office based on Annex XIII capability indicators. Once designated, the model is listed on a public register; its provider must comply with Art. 55 within prescribed timelines. Designation can be challenged but the burden is on the provider to show non-systemic status.
Used by these instruments
- EU AI Act· EU
Related concepts
- Systemic Risk (AI)— A regulatory designation indicating that a general-purpose AI model poses risks of significant scale
- Frontier-Tier AI— A categorical classification of AI models above certain capability or compute thresholds, indicating
- Compute Threshold (AI Governance)— A regulatory trigger expressed as floating-point operations (FLOPs) consumed during model training,
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Editorial note
As of the catalog refresh date, no GPAI model has been publicly designated under the explicit pathway; all systemic-risk models so far have been by presumption thresholds. Track future designations via the AI Office register.
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