This recital applies to all providers of AI systems within the scope of the EU AI Act operating within the European Union.
To protect the rights of others against discrimination that may result from biases in AI systems, providers should be allowed, on an exceptional basis and to the extent strictly necessary, to process special categories of personal data, subject to appropriate safeguards for the rights and freedoms of natural persons.
In order to protect the right of others from the discrimination that might result from the bias in AI systems, the providers should, exceptionally, to the extent that it is strictly necessary for the purpose of ensuring bias detection and correction in relation to the high-risk AI systems, subject to appropriate safeguards for the fundamental rights and freedoms of natural persons and following the application of all applicable conditions laid down under this Regulation in addition to the conditions laid down in Regulations (EU) 2016/679 and (EU) 2018/1725 and Directive (EU) 2016/680, be able to process also special categories of personal data, as a matter of substantial public interest within the meaning of Article 9(2), point (g) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and Article 10(2), point (g) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725.