What EU Commission Guidelines on Prohibited Artificial Intelligence Practices (February 4, 2025) requires
On February 4, 2025 the European Commission published Guidelines on Prohibited Artificial Intelligence Practices to support the application of the EU AI Act prohibited practices that became binding on February 2, 2025. The Guidelines interpret the eight categories of prohibited AI practices under the EU AI Act: (1) Subliminal techniques beyond a person's consciousness or purposefully manipulative or deceptive techniques causing significant harm; (2) Exploitation of vulnerabilities of natural persons due to age, disability, or specific social or economic situation causing significant harm; (3) Social scoring leading to detrimental or unfavourable treatment of natural persons in social contexts unrelated to the data generation context or unjustified to the context's severity; (4) Predictive policing based solely on profiling or personality traits; (5) Untargeted scraping of facial images from the internet or CCTV footage to create or expand facial recognition databases; (6) Emotion recognition systems in workplaces and educational institutions, except for medical or safety reasons; (7) Biometric categorisation systems inferring race, political opinions, trade union membership, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, or sexual orientation; (8) Real-time remote biometric identification systems in publicly accessible spaces for law enforcement purposes, with narrow exceptions for specific serious offences. The Guidelines run 140+ pages and provide use case examples, interpretation criteria, the harm threshold definition, and the relationship with other EU instruments. National competent authorities and the EU AI Office use the Guidelines as the operative interpretation for enforcement under EU AI Act Articles 5 and 99.
Pillar: AI Governance & Law · Authority: European Commission - Guidelines on Prohibited Artificial Intelligence Practices, Communication of February 4, 2025 · Version: 1.0.0 · Last updated:
Primary source: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/commission-guidelines-prohibited-artificial-intelligence-ai-practices-defined-ai-act
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- European Commission, Guidelines on Prohibited Artificial Intelligence Practices, Communication of February 4, 2025, interpreting the EU AI Act prohibitions applicable from February 2, 2025
- Commission Guidelines on Prohibited Practices category 1: subliminal techniques beyond a person's consciousness or purposefully manipulative or deceptive techniques materially distorting behaviour causing or likely to cause significant harm
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