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FRIA Guide: Conducting Fundamental Rights Impact Assessments under the EU AI Act

Your organisation has been using an AI-powered tool to screen job applicants for the past 18 months. The system ingests CVs, scores candidates on a composite of attributes, and surfaces a ranked shortlist to hiring managers. Until recently, this was a product decision. From August 2, 2026, it is a legal obligation: under Article 27 of the EU AI Act, deployers of high-risk AI systems in employment and similar domains must conduct a Fundamental Rights Impact Assessment before putting that system into use — and they must notify the competent national market surveillance authority of the results.