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title: "Worksheet, which box does your AI idea fall into"
description: "A ten-minute worksheet that runs your own AI idea through the four boxes of the AI Act: four questions, what you arrange per box and a prompt that interviews you."
language: en
source: https://coachsteff.live/en/toolkit-werkblad-ai-act-vakjes
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# Worksheet, which box does your AI idea fall into

You have an idea to use AI in your work. And somewhere in the back of your mind is a little voice asking if that is allowed. In training sessions I notice that almost everyone knows that little voice. It asks a good question, but it rarely gives an answer. So your idea is left on the shelf, or you do it anyway, with a little feeling of guilt attached. This worksheet runs your idea through the four boxes of the AI Act in about ten minutes. You end up with a box, with what you arrange in that box and with the questions you still need to present to whoever handles privacy at your organisation. You only need your idea, a sheet of paper and your AI tool.

## Four questions that give your idea a box

First write down in two or three sentences what you want to do with AI. Then ask these four questions about it, in this order, and stop at the first yes.

1. Does it give people points for their behaviour, or does it read the emotions of colleagues at work? Then you are in the prohibited box.
1. Does it help decide on someone's job, education, loan, health or safety? Then you are in high risk.
1. Does someone talk to it without it being automatically clear that it is AI, or does what the AI makes go outside? Then you are in limited risk, and everything revolves around transparency.
1. None of the above? Then you are usually in minimal risk.

A tool that measures who is bored in your meetings actually sounds like a joke. In the AI Act it is simply listed among the prohibited things. And most of what you do with AI in a normal working week surprisingly quickly ends up at question four. Then the law often turns out to be less exciting than your own customer database. Below is the complete worksheet in five steps, with a prompt that first interviews you and then helps determine your box.