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What is Prohibited AI practices?
Prohibited AI practices (also called unacceptable risk): AI uses that the EU AI Act bans outright because they are judged to threaten fundamental rights or safety, such as certain manipulative techniques and government-run social scoring. The list is defined in the Act and is narrower than everything people find objectionable.
Prohibited AI practices: an example
A system designed to score citizens' overall trustworthiness across their social behaviour, for a public authority, would fall in the banned group.
Related terms
- EU AI Act
- High-risk AI system
- Risk-based approach to AI regulation
- Responsible AI
More AI ethics law product terms
- Protected attribute
- Proxy variable
- Pseudonymization
- Purpose limitation
- Re-identification
- Representation bias
- Responsible AI
- Retention rate
Where you learn it
Prohibited AI practices is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.