Your management consulting firm is planning to use an AI system to support its employees.

Under the EU AI Act, a deployer is a natural or legal person, public authority, agency, or other body that uses an AI system under its authority, except where the system is used in a personal, non-professional activity. The consulting firm is using an existing AI system to support its employees and is therefore acting as a deployer. It is not a provider because the scenario does not state that the firm develops the AI system, has it developed, or places it on the market under its own name or trademark. It is not a distributor because it is not making the system available in the supply chain. An authorized representative acts on behalf of a provider established outside the EU. Consequently, D correctly describes the firm ' s role.

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