Unacceptable Risk

For example, AI systems that allow “social scoring” by governments or companies are considered a clear threat to people's fundamental rights and are therefore banned.

High Risk

High-risk AI systems such as AI-based medical software or AI systems used for recruitment must comply with strict requirements, including risk-mitigation systems, high-quality data sets, clear user information, human oversight, etc.

Limited Risk

Systems like chatbots must clearly inform users that they are interacting with a machine, while certain AI-generated content must be labelled as such.

Minimal Risk

Most AI systems such as spam filters and AI-enabled video games face no obligation under the AI Act, but companies can voluntarily adopt additional codes of conduct.

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Prohibited Practices

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 behavior, causing or reasonably likely to cause significant harm.

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 behavior, causing or reasonably likely to cause significant harm.

Social Scoring

AI systems that evaluate or classify natural persons or groups of persons based on social behavior or personal or personality characteristics, with the social score leading to detrimental or unfavorable treatment when data comes from unrelated social contexts or such treatment is unjustified or disproportionate to social behavior.

Biometric Categorization

AI systems that categorize 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.

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.

Untargeted Scrapping to develop facial recognition database

AI systems that create or expand facial recognition databases through untargeted scraping of facial images from the internet or closed-circuit television (CCTV’) footage

Emotion Recognition

AI systems that infer emotions at the workplace or in education institutions. (except for medical or safety reasons)

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.