Prohibited AI Practices under Article 5 of the EU AI Act

AI systems which pose inherent risks to fundamental rights, including

• Manipulation & deception affecting decision-making.
• Exploitation of vulnerabilities (age, disability, socio-economic status).
• Social scoring with discriminatory consequences.
• Predictive crime assessment based solely on profiling.
• Unauthorized facial recognition data scraping.
• Emotion recognition in workplaces & schools (except for safety/medical use).
• Biometric categorization based on sensitive characteristics (race, religion, etc.).
• Real-time biometric surveillance in public spaces, except for specific law enforcement cases.
• Exemptions apply to national security, defense, R&D, and open-source AI unless classified as high-risk or prohibited.