Prohibited AI

AI systems that are outright banned by the EU AI Act because their risks are deemed unacceptable regardless of any benefits. Prohibited uses include: subliminal manipulation systems that bypass conscious decision-making, AI exploiting vulnerabilities of specific groups, social scoring by public authorities, real-time remote biometric identification in public spaces (with narrow exceptions), biometric categorization to infer sensitive attributes, and predictive policing based solely on profiling. These prohibitions applied from August 2024. Organizations deploying AI should review use cases against the prohibited list as a first governance step.