# Recital (110)

General-purpose AI models could pose systemic risks which include, but are not limited to, any actual or reasonably 
foreseeable negative effects in relation to major accidents, disruptions of critical sectors and serious consequences to 
public health and safety; any actual or reasonably foreseeable negative effects on democratic processes, public and 
economic security; the dissemination of illegal, false, or discriminatory content. Systemic risks should be understood 
to increase with model capabilities and model reach, can arise along the entire lifecycle of the model, and are 
influenced by conditions of misuse, model reliability, model fairness and model security, the level of autonomy of 

the model, its access to tools, novel or combined modalities, release and distribution strategies, the potential to 
remove guardrails and other factors. In particular, international approaches have so far identified the need to pay 
attention to risks from potential intentional misuse or unintended issues of control relating to alignment with 
human intent; chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear risks, such as the ways in which barriers to entry can be 
lowered, including for weapons development, design acquisition, or use; offensive cyber capabilities, such as the 
ways in vulnerability discovery, exploitation, or operational use can be enabled; the effects of interaction and tool 
use, including for example the capacity to control physical systems and interfere with critical infrastructure; risks 
from models of making copies of themselves or ‘self-replicating’ or training other models; the ways in which models 
can give rise to harmful bias and discrimination with risks to individuals, communities or societies; the facilitation of 
disinformation or harming privacy with threats to democratic values and human rights; risk that a particular event 
could lead to a chain reaction with considerable negative effects that could affect up to an entire city, an entire 
domain activity or an entire community.

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Source: Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (Artificial Intelligence Act) as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, consolidated text of 27 July 2026 (Official Journal of the EU). This page is AI-generated legal information, not legal advice. Verify against the Official Journal.
Canonical: https://euaiactlaw.com/recital/110