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The EU AI Act defines an AI system as a machine-based system that, for explicit or implicit objectives, infers from the input it receives how to generate outputs such as predictions, content, recommendations or decisions.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“infers, from the input it receives, how to generate outputs such as predictions, content, recommendations, or decisions”
Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (Artificial Intelligence Act), Article 3: Definitions, EUR-Lex, Official Journal of the European Union, 2024, Article 3, point 1.
Open the original- What it measures
- This is the legal definition the regulation uses for an AI system. Read literally, its wording covers any machine-based system that produces output from the input it receives, which includes a system that turns speech into text.
- What it does not show
- The definition is for the purposes of this regulation and does not say whether a given product is covered; that depends on the rest of the regulation and the use. That a speech-to-text engine fits the wording is our reading, not a statement in the text.