Operational guidance on the “AI checker”

To support the use of the Vademecum, the UISH Project provides two further operational tools, called “AI checker” and “Licence checker”. The two checkers are referred to in the relevant sections of the Vademecum, to which they are functionally linked, and enable the user to carry out specific checks along the path of legal and technical design and development of the UDT.

The checkers are therefore not tools separate from the Vademecum, but operational support tools for it: when, while consulting the Vademecum, the need arises to carry out one of the checks provided for, the user is directed to the relevant tool and can then continue consulting the Vademecum in the light of the outcome obtained.

AI checker

What is it?

The AI checker brings together the tools provided for checks relating to artificial intelligence systems. It includes, in particular, the AI Act Compliance Checker, the AI system definition questionnaire, the Risk level assessment, the GPAI model classification test, ALTAI – Assessment List for Trustworthy AI and a FRIA working template.

The AI checker is referred to in the Vademecum at the points where, in the design and development of the UDT, the checks relating to the use of AI systems need to be addressed.

How to use it, in brief

While consulting the Vademecum, you find the reference to the AI checker that is relevant to the check to be carried out.
You go to the checker and select the tool corresponding to the check in question.
You follow the path set out by that specific tool.
The outcome is used as operational support for continuing along the path set out in the Vademecum.

Caution: the result returned by the checker serves an informative and guidance purpose and must be read together with the guidance and regulatory references contained in the Vademecum. It does not replace the legal, technical or professional assessment required in the specific case.

Notes on licences and on the use of artificial intelligence tools

The tools Build the UDT in pills, AI checker and Licence checker are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. Anyone wishing to reproduce, distribute or adapt the material must attribute the work in the manner specified by the authors, without suggesting that the authors endorse the user or the user's use of the work.

Without prejudice to the above release conditions, the specific licences, usage restrictions and rights relating to the individual regulatory and bibliographic components, technical standards, IT tools, software, EU and national legal sources, the case law cited, guidelines and soft law documents, as well as third-party bibliographic materials referred to in the document, must always be preserved and respected. In particular, these remain subject to their respective terms of access and use and are not necessarily covered by the CC BY 4.0 licence adopted here.

Some diagrams and explanatory tables in this document, and the tools mentioned above, were produced with the support of generative artificial intelligence systems (Anthropic Claude).

Statement of exclusion of liability (Disclaimer)

The tools have been developed for research purposes and are informative and indicative in nature. The operational guidance, templates, checklists and legal texts they contain in no way replace the advice of qualified professionals, whose services public administrations and operators using the tools will have to engage.

The Vademecum provides a methodological and regulatory frame of reference, but cannot take into account the specific features of the individual institutional, technical and territorial contexts in which it will be applied.

Moreover, the reference regulatory framework is constantly evolving. The operational guidance contained in the document must be constantly checked in the light of subsequent legislative, regulatory and case-law developments, with particular regard to Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 on artificial intelligence (AI Act), Regulation (EU) 2023/2854 (Data Act), and the implementing guidelines issued by the competent authorities at national and European Union level.

The authors, the institutions participating in the UISH Project and their respective organisations decline all liability for any decisions, actions or omissions taken on the basis of the guidance contained in the document without prior and independent verification by qualified legal or technical experts, as well as for any damage, direct or indirect, arising from the use of the information contained herein.

This page is a translation of the Italian original; where the two differ, the Italian text prevails.

Keywords: AI checker, operational guidance, AI Act, Compliance Checker, ALTAI, FRIA, CC BY 4.0, disclaimer