Systemic risk is a risk associated with high-impact capabilities of general-purpose AI models that can produce significant effects across markets, society, public health, safety, security, or fundamental rights. It is characterized by scale, reach, and the potential for widespread propagation of negative effects.
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.