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The EU AI Act classified a TypeScript data serialisation library as High Risk. Here is what happened.

DEV Community·Olebeng·26 days ago
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On 21 April I audited trpc/trpc, the TypeScript library for building end-to-end type-safe APIs. Score came back at 80. Healthy. Three High findings, 58% confirmation rate. On 24 April I re-audited with a corrected product description. Score dropped to 47.6. Critical Risk. Three new High findings under AI Governance appeared in the sections evaluated by the AI Governance agent. The reason: tRPC's "transformer" components were classified as High Risk under the EU AI Act. tRPC has no machine learning components. It does not process model outputs. It does not make AI decisions. The transformer in tRPC's codebase is a data serialisation utility that handles how data is encoded and decoded across the client-server boundary. The word "transformer" is used in its original computer science sense, predating the AI context by decades. What the three High findings stated High AI Governance: High-risk AI system classification under EU AI Act without declared controls.…

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