---
title: "systemic risk"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/glossary/systemic-risk"
type: "defined_term"
site: "AI Law Framework"
checked: "2026-10-10"
---

# systemic risk

> a risk that is specific to the high-impact capabilities of general-purpose AI models, having a significant impact on the Union market due to their reach, or due to actual or reasonably foreseeable negative effects on…

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Checked: 2026-10-10

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a risk that is specific to the high-impact capabilities of general-purpose AI models, having a significant impact on the Union market due to their reach, or due to actual or reasonably foreseeable negative effects on public health, safety, public security, fundamental rights, or the society as a whole, that can be propagated at scale across the value chain;

Source: [EU AI Act Art 3(65)](https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/article/3/) (checked 2026-10-10)

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