This index does not restate the AI Act. It provides an interpretive reading of high-risk domains in order to identify where meaning must be bounded, justified, escalated, or refused.
Operational definition
The interpretive AI Act index is a navigation layer that groups sectoral maps according to domains where generative synthesis can become actionable, contestable, or institutionally sensitive. Its purpose is operational: to connect high-risk contexts to the constraints they require.
Why an index is necessary
Regulation names categories of risk, but governability requires a second layer: the structure of meaning that an AI system may overextend, simplify, or silently universalize. The index translates sectoral exposure into interpretive constraints, without confusing legal qualification with editorial architecture.
Domains covered by the index
- Employment and HR: criteria, exclusions, bias, and traceability.
- Education: thresholds, evidence, and legitimate non-action.
- Credit: factors, negations, justification, and temporality.
- Health: prudence, source hierarchy, limits, and human escalation.
- Legal and public sector: jurisdictions, exceptions, validity, transparency, and recourse.
- Biometrics and identity: identification, verification, surveillance, and prohibitions.
How to use the index
- Start from the sector where an output can become actionable rather than merely descriptive.
- Move from the sectoral page to the corresponding map of constraints.
- Relate each sectoral map back to phenomena, doctrine, and definitions.
- Use the index as a routing layer for governance, not as a substitute for domain expertise.
- Keep the distinction between regulatory compliance and interpretive stability explicit.
What this index prevents
- Treating all high-risk contexts as if they required the same warnings and the same editorial pattern.
- Reducing governance to a compliance label without operational constraints.
- Confusing sector naming with interpretive control.
- Leaving domain-sensitive outputs without a canonical route toward the relevant map.
