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Decision support

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Decision support supplies information or recommendations intended to inform a human decision.

Review status: 2027-02-24

Technical explanation

It can provide information that helps a deployer interpret output and use a system appropriately in its intended context.

Conceptual boundaries

Decision support can inform a human decision, but information or recommendations do not by themselves make that decision correct.

Provider-neutral example

A system can rank applications against published criteria while a qualified reviewer checks the supporting record and makes the admission decision.

Limitations

Information or recommendations need interpretation in their intended context and do not by themselves make a human decision correct.

Related concepts

Atomic claims and evidence

  1. 1.1Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (Artificial Intelligence Act), consolidated text of 27 July 2026 — D6 human-role slice
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    Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (Artificial Intelligence Act), consolidated text of 27 July 2026 — D6 human-role slice
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    Article 13(3)(b),(d), current consolidated text of 27 July 2026
    Supported claim
    For high-risk AI systems within its scope, the EU AI Act requires information enabling deployers to interpret outputs and use the system appropriately, including relevant human-oversight measures.
    Last verification
    Review due
    Scope limitation
    This is a documentation and design requirement for high-risk systems within the instrument's scope; it does not make an AI output correct or make the deployer a final decision-maker in every setting.
    1.2NIST AI 100-1, Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0) — D6 human and organizational slice
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    NIST AI 100-1, Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0) — D6 human and organizational slice
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    Section 3 introductory discussion, printed p. 12: human judgment in metric and threshold decisions
    Supported claim
    For high-risk AI systems within its scope, the EU AI Act requires information enabling deployers to interpret outputs and use the system appropriately, including relevant human-oversight measures.
    Last verification
    Review due
    Scope limitation
    This is a documentation and design requirement for high-risk systems within the instrument's scope; it does not make an AI output correct or make the deployer a final decision-maker in every setting.
  2. 2.1Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (Artificial Intelligence Act), consolidated text of 27 July 2026 — D6 human-role slice
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    Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (Artificial Intelligence Act), consolidated text of 27 July 2026 — D6 human-role slice
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    Article 14(4)(b), current consolidated text of 27 July 2026
    Supported claim
    Article 14 of the EU AI Act expressly identifies the tendency to automatically rely or over-rely on outputs of high-risk AI systems used to provide information or recommendations for human decisions.
    Last verification
    Review due
    Scope limitation
    This is an instrument-specific observation and oversight requirement; it does not imply that all reliance on a recommendation is irrational.
    2.2Parasuraman and Riley, Humans and Automation: Use, Misuse, Disuse, Abuse
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    Parasuraman and Riley, Humans and Automation: Use, Misuse, Disuse, Abuse
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    pp. 231-234: use, misuse, disuse, abuse, and automation-related decision errors
    Supported claim
    Article 14 of the EU AI Act expressly identifies the tendency to automatically rely or over-rely on outputs of high-risk AI systems used to provide information or recommendations for human decisions.
    Last verification
    Review due
    Scope limitation
    This is an instrument-specific observation and oversight requirement; it does not imply that all reliance on a recommendation is irrational.