# Definitions 3(1) — AI Act — provision context

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Part of **Definitions** (AI Act, full article: https://overview.legal/laws/ai-act/art-3).

## Provision text

### 3(1)

‘AI system’ means a machine-based system that is designed to operate with varying levels of autonomy and that may exhibit adaptiveness after deployment, and that, for explicit or implicit objectives, infers, from the input it receives, how to generate outputs such as predictions, content, recommendations, or decisions that can influence physical or virtual environments;


## Topics on this provision

- **Artificial Intelligence** — https://overview.legal/topics/ai
  AI systems and their implications for data protection

## Cited by (exact-provision citations)

- **Opinion 28/2024 on certain data protection aspects related to the processing of personal data in the context of AI models** (guidance) — https://overview.legal/posts/125697
- **Statement 3/2024 on data protection authorities’ role in the Artificial Intelligence Act framework** (guidance) — https://overview.legal/posts/125732
- **Statement 3/2024 on data protection authorities’ role in the Artificial Intelligence Act framework** §2 (guidance, EDPB) — https://overview.legal/posts/125732
- **Opinion 28/2024 on certain data protection aspects related to the processing of personal data in the context of AI models** §29 (guidance, EDPB) — https://overview.legal/posts/125697

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