Add: Guidelines on the Definition of an AI System

[2digitsleft]

Adds the European Commission's Guidelines on the Definition of an AI System to the "European Commission" subsection under "Official EU Sources".

What it is: The Commission's non-binding guidelines (6 February 2025) breaking down the seven cumulative elements of the AI system definition in Article 3(1): machine-based, autonomy, adaptiveness, objectives, inference, output generation, and influence on environments. Includes explicit examples of what is and isn't an AI system (e.g., basic data processing and pure mathematical optimization are excluded).

Why it belongs: This is the threshold question for whether the AI Act applies at all to a given system. The Guidelines are cited by virtually every law-firm guide already on this list and are the Commission's primary interpretive document on the scope of the Act.

Checklist:

• Directly relevant to EU AI Act compliance
• Publicly accessible
• Working link
• Not already listed
• Description under 100 characters
• Hyphen separator

[carloshvp]

Thanks for the contribution @2digitsleft. The AI system definition guidelines are a useful official source for scoping the Act, and CI is green. I’m merging this now.