Your role
Introduction
Section titled “Introduction”🎯 Learning goals
- Understand the roles defined in the AI Act
- Know which role applies to your organization when using Intric
- Understand when an Intric customer can become a downstream provider
Roles relate to the actors who are regulated by the Act. Roles such as ‘user’ or ‘person affected’ are relevant to the Act, but not to figure out requirements.
Provider
Section titled “Provider”“Provider” is another term for “developer”. Any person or organization that developed an AI system or a GPAI and put it on the market or put it into service — in other words, made it available for users.
Here, Intric is the provider.
Deployer
Section titled “Deployer”“Deployer” is another term for “user”, but this only matters in the AI Act if such use is in a professional context. A deployer can be a person (natural or legal) or an organization (public or private).
Logically, an organization using an AI system can’t be using it in a personal, non-professional way, while a person could be using it professionally (e.g. they are using it to do a work activity) or a person could use a system personally. Personal use is not regulated!
If you are using Intric, your employer is the deployer.
Downstream provider
Section titled “Downstream provider”This specific role is intended to capture providers who build on others’ AI systems, including GPAIs, and then make these ‘new’ systems available on the market.
Intric customers (deployers) who make widgets of their assistants, available to people outside of their own organization, are making an AI system available to new deployers. These original customers then become downstream providers, with identical obligations as Intric.
Can an organization be a downstream provider of a general purpose AI model? No — ‘provider’ or ‘downstream’ provider status relates to AI systems.
See our documentation on assessing your role: help.intric.ai/en/docs/security-compliance/ai-act/your-role/
Other roles
Section titled “Other roles”There are other roles, like “distributor” and “importer”. The boundary between these two is not clear-cut, but these apply more to intermediaries selling other providers’ systems in the EU.
Key takeaways
Section titled “Key takeaways”- Provider = the developer who puts an AI system on the market. Intric is the provider.
- Deployer = your organization using AI in a professional context. Most Intric customers are deployers.
- Downstream provider = an Intric customer who makes their assistant available to people outside their own organization, taking on identical obligations to Intric.
- Personal use of AI is not regulated — only professional use creates obligations.
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