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EU Draft Guidelines on prohibited artificial intelligence practices

  • 1.  EU Draft Guidelines on prohibited artificial intelligence practices

    Posted Feb 09, 2025 07:54:00 AM
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    Hi All,

    The EU just published Draft Guidelines on prohibited artificial intelligence practices.

    Overview on the Prohibitions

    Article 5(1)(a)
    Harmful manipulation, and deception
    AI systems that deploy subliminal techniques beyond a person's consciousness or purposefully manipulative or deceptive techniques, with the objective or with the effect of distorting behaviour, causing or reasonably likely to cause significant harm

    Article 5(1)(b)
    Harmful exploitation of vulnerabilities
    AI systems that exploit vulnerabilities due to age, disability or a specific social or economic situation, with the objective or with the effect of distorting behaviour, causing or reasonably likely to cause significant harm

    Article 5(1)(c)
    Social scoring
    AI systems that evaluate or classify natural persons or groups of persons based on social behaviour or personal or personality characteristics, with the social score leading to detrimental or unfavourable treatment when data comes from unrelated social contexts or such treatment is unjustified or disproportionate to the social behaviour

    Article 5(1)(d)
    Individual criminal offence risk assessment and prediction
    AI systems that assess or predict the risk of people committing a criminal offence based solely on profiling or personality traits and characteristics; except to support a human assessment based on objective and verifiable facts directly linked to a criminal activity

    Article 5(1)(e)
    Untargeted scraping to develop facial recognition databases
    AI systems that create or expand facial recognition databases through untargeted scraping of facial images from the internet or closed-circuit television ('CCTV') footage

    Article 5(1)(f)
    Emotion recognition
    AI systems that infer emotions at the workplace or in education institutions; except for medical or safety reasons

    Article 5(1)(g)
    Biometric categorisation
    AI systems that categorise people based on their biometric data to deduce or infer their race, political opinions, trade union membership, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex-life or sexual orientation; except for labelling or filtering of lawfully acquired biometric datasets, including in the area of law enforcement

    Article 5(1)(h)
    Real-time remote biometric identification ('RBI')
    AI systems for real-time remote biometric identification in publicly accessible spaces for the purposes of law enforcement; except if necessary for the targeted search of specific victims, the prevention of specific threats including terrorist attacks, or the search of suspects of specific offences (further procedural requirements, including for authorisation

    This document can be downloaded here: https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/redirection/document/112367



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    Michael Roza CPA, CISA, CIA, CC, CCSKv5, CCZTv1, MBA, EMBA, CSA
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