EU AI Act (Regulation 2024/1689) - Article 5: Prohibited AI Practices

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Article 5 is the prohibition chapter of the EU AI Act (effective August 2024), representing binding EU law on AI. It is directly relevant to AI safety governance discussions as it codifies society's red lines for AI deployment and sets precedent for international AI regulation.

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Article 5 of the EU AI Act establishes a list of prohibited AI practices deemed unacceptable risks to fundamental rights and safety. These prohibitions include subliminal manipulation, exploitation of vulnerabilities, social scoring by public authorities, real-time remote biometric identification in public spaces, and certain emotion recognition and biometric categorization systems. It represents the EU's hardest regulatory line against specific high-risk AI applications.

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•Bans AI systems that use subliminal, manipulative, or deceptive techniques to distort behavior in ways that cause or are likely to cause harm
•Prohibits social scoring systems by public authorities that lead to detrimental or unfavorable treatment of persons
•Restricts real-time remote biometric identification systems in publicly accessible spaces for law enforcement, with narrow exceptions
•Forbids AI-based emotion recognition in workplace and educational contexts, and biometric categorization inferring sensitive attributes
•Bans untargeted scraping of facial images from the internet or CCTV footage to build facial recognition databases

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Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2024 laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence and amending Regulations (EC) No 300/2008, (EU) No 167/2013, (EU) No 168/2013, (EU) 2018/858, (EU) 2018/1139 and (EU) 2019/2144 and Directives 2014/90/EU, (EU) 2016/797 and (EU) 2020/1828 (Artificial Intelligence Act) (Text with EEA relevance)

Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2024 laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence and amending Regulations (EC) No 300/2008, (EU) No 167/2013, (EU) No 168/2013, (EU) 2018/858, (EU) 2018/1139 and (EU) 2019/2144 and Directives 2014/90/EU, (EU) 2016/797 and (EU) 2020/1828 (Artificial Intelligence Act) (Text with EEA relevance)

Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2024 laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence and amending Regulations (EC) No 300/2008, (EU) No 167/2013, (EU) No 168/2013, (EU) 2018/858, (EU) 2018/1139 and (EU) 2019/2144 and Directives 2014/90/EU, (EU) 2016/797 and (EU) 2020/1828 (Artificial Intelligence Act) (Text with EEA relevance)

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