Definition
AI applications the EU AI Act bans outright because of an unacceptable risk (Article 5). They include harmful manipulation, exploiting vulnerabilities, social scoring by public and private actors, predicting crime from profiling alone, untargeted scraping of facial images, emotion recognition in the workplace and in education, biometric categorisation by sensitive traits and live facial recognition by the police in public spaces (with narrow exceptions). The prohibitions have applied since 2 February 2025.