What Is EU AI Act Prohibited Practices?
EU AI Act Prohibited Practices is the category of AI uses banned outright under Article 5 of the EU AI Act because they pose unacceptable risk to fundamental rights.
EU AI Act Prohibited Practices — the category of AI uses banned outright under Article 5 of the EU AI Act because they pose unacceptable risk to fundamental rights.
The prohibitions took effect on 2 February 2025 — the first EU AI Act obligations to apply. Banned practices include: harmful subliminal manipulation, exploitation of vulnerabilities, social scoring by public authorities, certain predictive policing based solely on profiling, untargeted scraping of facial images, emotion recognition in workplaces and schools, and most real-time remote biometric identification in public spaces by law enforcement. Breaching the prohibitions carries the heaviest penalties — up to €35 million or 7% of global turnover.
Source: EU AI Act, Article 5
Plain-language explanation
The prohibitions took effect on 2 February 2025 — the first EU AI Act obligations to apply. Banned practices include: harmful subliminal manipulation, exploitation of vulnerabilities, social scoring by public authorities, certain predictive policing based solely on profiling, untargeted scraping of facial images, emotion recognition in workplaces and schools, and most real-time remote biometric identification in public spaces by law enforcement. Breaching the prohibitions carries the heaviest penalties — up to €35 million or 7% of global turnover.
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