(c) the placing on the market, the putting into service or the use of AI systems for the evaluation or classification of natural persons or groups of persons over a certain period of time based on their social behaviour or known, inferred or predicted personal or personality characteristics, with the social score leading to either or both of the following: (i) detrimental or unfavourable treatment of certain natural persons or groups of persons in social contexts that are unrelated to the contexts in which the data was originally generated or collected; (ii) detrimental or unfavourable treatment of certain natural persons or groups of persons that is unjustified or disproportionate to their social behaviour or its gravity; ... (f) the placing on the market, the putting into service for this specific purpose, or the use of AI systems to infer emotions of a natural person in the areas of workplace and education institutions, except where the use of the AI system is intended to be put in place or into the market for medical or safety reasons; (g) the placing on the market, the putting into service for this specific purpose, or the use of biometric categorisation systems that categorise individually natural persons 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; this prohibition does not cover any labelling or filtering of lawfully acquired biometric datasets, such as images, based on biometric data or categorizing of biometric data in the area of law enforcement;
How this was checked
Prohibited practices: selected examples
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The EU AI Act prohibits, among other practices, AI systems used to infer the emotions of a person in the workplace or in education institutions except for medical or safety reasons; biometric categorisation systems that categorise people on the basis of their biometric data to deduce or infer race, political opinions, trade union membership, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life or sexual orientation; and the evaluation or classification of people over time on the basis of social behaviour or personal characteristics where the resulting social score leads to detrimental treatment in unrelated contexts or to treatment that is unjustified or disproportionate.
At a glance
The statement laid out, in its own words. The statement above and its sources are what count.
Three of the prohibited practices - a selection, not the full list
| Practice | What is prohibited |
|---|---|
| Inferring emotions | AI systems used to infer the emotions of a person in the workplace or in education institutions, except for medical or safety reasons |
| Biometric categorisation | Categorising people on the basis of their biometric data to deduce or infer race, political opinions, trade union membership, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life or sexual orientation |
| Social scoring | Evaluating or classifying people over time on the basis of social behaviour or personal characteristics, where the score leads to detrimental treatment in unrelated contexts or to treatment that is unjustified or disproportionate |
Where the book relies on it
- The AI Act File, The uses that are simply forbidden. About The AI Act File
- Kind of evidence
- documentarySettled by a first-hand source, quoted below with the day it was read.
The evidence
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