Responsible AI & EU AI Act

This page explains the principles IQTech applies when designing, developing and deploying artificial-intelligence functionality, including AI-enabled capabilities used within Esculapio and other IQTech products and services.

It also describes our approach to the European Union Artificial Intelligence Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689). It is a transparency statement and not a declaration that every IQTech system, feature or deployment has the same regulatory classification.

IQTech uses AI to support intelligent and adaptive experiences across immersive training, software automation and digital interaction. Depending on the product and deployment, AI-enabled functions may support:

• natural-language and voice interaction;
• virtual patient, tutor or assistant interactions;
• scenario orchestration and adaptive simulation behavior;
• structured analysis of training activity and performance evidence;
• feedback, reporting and learning support;
• content, workflow or development automation under human supervision.

We design AI-enabled functionality to support people, not to remove appropriate human responsibility. Clinical, educational and operational content should be reviewed by qualified persons appropriate to the relevant use case.

For Esculapio, AI-generated or AI-structured clinical simulation content is intended to remain subject to scientific, clinical or instructional validation before being relied upon in an institutional training context.

Esculapio is designed for simulation, education, training and performance development. Unless a specific feature is separately documented, validated and authorized for another purpose, it is not intended to replace a healthcare professional's clinical judgment, diagnose a patient or prescribe treatment.

Simulation outputs, AI-generated dialogue, recommendations, scores and feedback should be interpreted within the intended training context and with appropriate professional oversight.

The EU AI Act uses a risk-based framework. The regulatory classification of an AI system depends on factors including its intended purpose, functionality and the context in which it is placed on the market, put into service or deployed.

Certain AI systems used in education or vocational training can be classified as high-risk, including systems intended to evaluate learning outcomes in educational or vocational institutions. Because IQTech technologies may include assessment and training functionality, we evaluate the intended use and deployment context rather than assuming a single classification for all customers and implementations.

Where a deployment falls within a high-risk category, the applicable obligations may include risk management, technical documentation, logging, transparency to deployers, human oversight, accuracy, robustness, cybersecurity, quality management and other requirements established by the AI Act.

We aim to make AI interaction understandable to users. Where required by law and appropriate to the experience, users should be informed when they are interacting with an AI system rather than a human being.

Where IQTech provides functionality that generates or manipulates synthetic text, audio, images or video, we assess and implement the transparency and machine-readable marking requirements that apply to the relevant system and use case.

AI systems can produce incorrect, incomplete, unexpected or contextually inappropriate outputs. IQTech therefore applies testing, validation, monitoring and fallback mechanisms appropriate to the relevant feature and risk profile.

Users and institutional deployers should not treat generative AI output as inherently authoritative. Higher-impact use cases require stronger validation and human review.

The AI Act applies in phases. Under the rules in force at the date of this page:

• prohibited-practice, definition and AI-literacy provisions began applying from 2 February 2025, subject to later amendments for certain newly introduced prohibitions;
• governance and general-purpose AI provisions began applying from 2 August 2025;
• Article 50 transparency obligations for specified AI systems apply from 2 August 2026;
• the principal requirements for high-risk systems classified under Annex III are scheduled to apply from 2 December 2027;
• the principal requirements for high-risk AI systems linked to regulated products under Annex I are scheduled to apply from 2 August 2028.

Regulatory timelines and guidance may evolve. IQTech reviews relevant legal and technical developments as its products and deployments evolve.