What AIs Are Banned by the EU Artificial Intelligence Act?
The EU’s new AI Act gives the Union sweeping powers to regulate AI-based systems.
AI-based Social Media platforms used for manipulating behavior and social-scoring are clearly in the EU’s crosshairs.
While they’re at it, the EU paves the way for broad use by government of Biometric ID Systems in public.
In this first Briefing Room comment on the new AI Act, SEC 5 Prohibited Practices is summarized:
Article 5, Artificial intelligence prohibited practices, Artificial Intelligence Act (Proposal 25.11.2022 - summary)
1. The following artificial intelligence practices shall be prohibited:
(a) … subliminal techniques beyond a person’s consciousness … materially distorting a person’s behaviour in a manner that causes or is reasonably likely to cause … physical or psychological harm;
(b) … exploit[ation of] any of the vulnerabilities of a specific group of persons due to their age, disability or a specific social or economic situation, with the objective to or the effect of materially distorting the behaviour of a person pertaining to that group in a manner that causes or is reasonably likely to cause that person or another person physical or psychological harm;
(c) … evaluation or classification of natural persons over a certain period of time based on their social behaviour or known or predicted personal or personality characteristics, with the social score leading to either or both of the following:
(i) detrimental or unfavourable treatment … in [unrelated] social contexts…;
(ii) detrimental or unfavourable treatment of certain natural persons or groups thereof that is unjustified or disproportionate to their social behaviour or its gravity;
(d) the use of ‘real-time’ remote biometric identification systems in publicly accessible spaces by law enforcement… unless … strictly necessary for one of the following objectives:
(i) the targeted search for specific potential victims of crime;
(ii) the prevention of a specific and substantial threat …;
(iii) the localisation or identification of a natural person for the purposes of conducting a criminal investigation, prosecution or executing a criminal penalty...