Well-being chatbot pushes users toward dangerous behaviour
A provider markets an AI chatbot meant to help users maintain a healthy lifestyle, with tailored advice on exercise and mental rest. In practice the chatbot exploits individual vulnerabilities and pushes people into dangerous habits, such as excessive sport without rest or water.
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praxikon:eu:ai-act:example:example-welzijnschatbot-riskante-adviezen- Payload hash (sha256)
9ac5d75a669107312143c6be24979e75112619f63fcccb230eb8bf27c15910bc
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Praxikon, "Well-being chatbot pushes users toward dangerous behaviour", praxikon:eu:ai-act:example:example-welzijnschatbot-riskante-adviezen@1.0.0, dataset praxikon:sys:registry:dataset:ai-act-implementation-graph 2.1.0 (schema 1.4.0), effective_at 2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z, known_at 2026-08-14T00:00:00.000Z, sha256 9ac5d75a669107312143c6be24979e75112619f63fcccb230eb8bf27c15910bc- Version
- 1.0.0
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- 8 August 2026
- Knowledge time (known_at)
- 8 August 2026
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- examples
Review status: Placed against the official source (8 August 2026). Next check due by 4 February 2027. The check date is the knowledge date of this version; no later recheck has been recorded.
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Guidelines on prohibited AI practices, C(2025) 5052 final
Locator: Commission Guidelines C(2025) 5052 final, 29.7.2025, worked examples under Article 5
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Guidelines on prohibited AI practices, C(2025) 5052 final
Locator: Commission Guidelines C(2025) 5052 final, 29.7.2025, worked examples under Article 5
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The Commission guidelines on prohibited AI practices treat this case as a worked example under Article 5. The document is non-binding: authoritative interpretation rests with the Court of Justice.
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Good intentions offer no protection: once a system can foreseeably push users toward serious harm and no preventive or mitigating measures were taken, the prohibition applies even without intent.
- Locator: Commission Guidelines C(2025) 5052 final, 29.7.2025, worked examples under Article 5praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:commission-prohibited-practices-guidelinesOpen official source
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Praxikon, "Well-being chatbot pushes users toward dangerous behaviour", praxikon:eu:ai-act:example:example-welzijnschatbot-riskante-adviezen@1.0.0, dataset praxikon:sys:registry:dataset:ai-act-implementation-graph 2.1.0 (schema 1.4.0), effective_at 2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z, known_at 2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z, sha256 9ac5d75a669107312143c6be24979e75112619f63fcccb230eb8bf27c15910bc, https://www.praxikon.com/en/verkenner/example/example-welzijnschatbot-riskante-adviezen (https://www.praxikon.com/api/v1/entities?id=praxikon%3Aeu%3Aai-act%3Aexample%3Aexample-welzijnschatbot-riskante-adviezen&effective_at=2026-08-08&known_at=2026-08-08&lang=en, accessed 2026-08-25)
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praxikon:eu:ai-act:example:example-welzijnschatbot-riskante-adviezen@1.0.0 (sha256 9ac5d75a)
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@misc{praxikon-eu-ai-act-example-example-welzijnschatbot-riskante-adviezen-1-0-0,
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title = {Well-being chatbot pushes users toward dangerous behaviour},
year = {2026},
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howpublished = {AI Act Change \& Evidence Graph, dataset 2.1.0, schema 1.4.0},
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url = {https://www.praxikon.com/en/verkenner/example/example-welzijnschatbot-riskante-adviezen},
urldate = {2026-08-25},
language = {en}
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