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DNLA Impact Assessment
In developmentA structured AI Impact Assessment produced before deployment, or after a significant change to a live system. It's especially relevant for systems used in HR, credit, insurance, public services, health, education, and other decision-making contexts where an AI system's output affects a real person.
Why this matters now
Regulation is catching up to what these systems already do
A growing share of AI deployments now sit in categories regulators explicitly call high-risk: systems that influence employment, credit, insurance, benefits, health, or education outcomes for real people. The EU AI Act and a wave of national and sector-specific rules are converging on the same expectation: that organizations can show, in writing, that they understood who a system affects and how, before they shipped it. An Impact Assessment is how that gets demonstrated, rather than asserted after the fact.
What it examines
Ten questions about who the system touches
- Who is affected by the system
- What decisions it actually makes
- How severe an error could be
- Whether there's a way to appeal a decision
- What role a human plays in the loop
- Whether discrimination is plausible
- What data is collected
- How transparent the system actually is
- What happens if it stops working
- Whether a manual fallback exists
Standards alignment
Built toward a recognized framework, not a vague ethics review
ISO/IEC 42005 already defines a framework for assessing the impact of AI systems on people and society, which means this product is designed to eventually map to a recognized standard, rather than stay an informal opinion. DNLA does not yet have accredited access to that standard, which is why Impact Assessment is currently in development. Get in touch if you'd like to be notified when it's ready.
Best suited for
- HR: screening, scoring, or ranking candidates and employees
- Credit and insurance: pricing, underwriting, and eligibility decisions
- Public services: eligibility, benefits, and enforcement decisions
- Health: triage, diagnostic support, and care recommendations
- Education: admissions, grading support, and proctoring
- Any system whose output changes what happens to a specific person
Building a system that affects real decisions about people?
Register your interest and we'll reach out when Impact Assessment is available.