[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$f5qQpRwuEXuQmbW95t9PU_yku4RbNwkr8sT5U_6pCOEA":3,"faq-section-":54},{"tableOfContents":4,"markDownContent":5,"htmlContent":6,"metaTitle":7,"metaDescription":8,"wordCount":9,"readTime":10,"title":11,"nbDownloads":12,"excerpt":13,"lang":14,"url":15,"intro":13,"featured":4,"state":16,"author":17,"authorId":18,"datePublication":22,"dateCreation":23,"dateUpdate":24,"mainCategory":25,"categories":45,"metaDatas":51,"imageUrl":13,"imageThumbUrls":52,"id":53},false,"The **AI Act** distinguishes [several categories of AI systems](https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/regulatory-framework-ai?), each giving rise to specific legal obligations.\n\nAt the top of this hierarchy are systems presenting an **unacceptable risk**: these uses, such as social scoring, behavioral manipulation, or certain real-time facial recognition systems, are **strictly prohibited** on the European Union market in order to prevent serious harm to fundamental rights.\n\nThis therefore results in a prohibition on placing on the market (the moment when the product is made available for sale/distribution, whether or not it is used immediately) or putting into service (the point at which an AI system begins operating in a use environment) AI systems that run counter to EU values and infringe fundamental rights, and that fall within one of the cases listed [in Article 5 of the AI Act:](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=OJ:L_202401689#art_5)\n\n- **Uses subliminal, manipulative, or deceptive techniques** intended to materially distort a person’s behavior in a manner that causes them to take a decision they would not otherwise have taken, causing harm.\n\n- **Exploits vulnerabilities** related to a person’s age, disability, or social/economic situation, with a substantial effect on their behavior, resulting in significant harm to that person or to another person.\n\n- **Evaluates or classifies people based on their social behavior** (so-called “social scoring”) or on **personal characteristics** (known or inferred), leading to **detrimental or unfavorable treatment**.\n\n- **Assesses the risk that a person will commit a criminal offense** solely on the basis of **profiling personality traits or personal characteristics**.\n\n- **Creates or expands facial recognition databases** through **untargeted scraping of images** from the internet or CCTV footage.\n\n- **Infers a person’s emotions in the workplace or in an educational institution** (except for medical or safety reasons).\n\n- **Uses biometric categorization systems** to individually classify people and **infer their race, political opinions, religious/philosophical beliefs, sex life, or sexual orientation**, unless there is an objective technical justification.\n\n- Uses a **remote biometric identification system in real time** in publicly accessible spaces for law-enforcement purposes.","\u003Cp>The \u003Cstrong>AI Act\u003C/strong> distinguishes \u003Ca href=\"https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/regulatory-framework-ai?\" rel=\"nofollow\">several categories of AI systems\u003C/a>, each giving rise to specific legal obligations.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>At the top of this hierarchy are systems presenting an \u003Cstrong>unacceptable risk\u003C/strong>: these uses, such as social scoring, behavioral manipulation, or certain real-time facial recognition systems, are \u003Cstrong>strictly prohibited\u003C/strong> on the European Union market in order to prevent serious harm to fundamental rights.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>This therefore results in a prohibition on placing on the market (the moment when the product is made available for sale/distribution, whether or not it is used immediately) or putting into service (the point at which an AI system begins operating in a use environment) AI systems that run counter to EU values and infringe fundamental rights, and that fall within one of the cases listed \u003Ca href=\"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=OJ:L_202401689#art_5\" rel=\"nofollow\">in Article 5 of the AI Act:\u003C/a>\u003C/p>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Uses subliminal, manipulative, or deceptive techniques\u003C/strong> intended to materially distort a person’s behavior in a manner that causes them to take a decision they would not otherwise have taken, causing harm.\u003C/p>\n\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Exploits vulnerabilities\u003C/strong> related to a person’s age, disability, or social/economic situation, with a substantial effect on their behavior, resulting in significant harm to that person or to another person.\u003C/p>\n\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Evaluates or classifies people based on their social behavior\u003C/strong> (so-called “social scoring”) or on \u003Cstrong>personal characteristics\u003C/strong> (known or inferred), leading to \u003Cstrong>detrimental or unfavorable treatment\u003C/strong>.\u003C/p>\n\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Assesses the risk that a person will commit a criminal offense\u003C/strong> solely on the basis of \u003Cstrong>profiling personality traits or personal characteristics\u003C/strong>.\u003C/p>\n\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Creates or expands facial recognition databases\u003C/strong> through \u003Cstrong>untargeted scraping of images\u003C/strong> from the internet or CCTV footage.\u003C/p>\n\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Infers a person’s emotions in the workplace or in an educational institution\u003C/strong> (except for medical or safety reasons).\u003C/p>\n\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Uses biometric categorization systems\u003C/strong> to individually classify people and \u003Cstrong>infer their race, political opinions, religious/philosophical beliefs, sex life, or sexual orientation\u003C/strong>, unless there is an objective technical 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