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title: Recital 85 | EU AI Act | AstroKube
description: 'Recital 85, EU AI Act: General-purpose AI systems may be used as high-risk AI systems by themselves or be components of other high-risk AI systems…'
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3.  Recital 85

# Recital 85

This is a recital of the 2024 act: interpretive context for the operative articles, not operative law itself.

▼ Primary text, verbatim. Our annotations appear below, visibly separated.

General-purpose AI systems may be used as high-risk AI systems by themselves or be components of other high-risk AI systems. Therefore, due to their particular nature and in order to ensure a fair sharing of responsibilities along the AI value chain, the providers of such systems should, irrespective of whether they may be used as high-risk AI systems as such by other providers or as components of high-risk AI systems and unless provided otherwise under this Regulation, closely cooperate with the providers of the relevant high-risk AI systems to enable their compliance with the relevant obligations under this Regulation and with the competent authorities established under this Regulation.

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### Type

Recital

### Amended by

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### Cited capture

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