Article 5: Prohibited Artificial Intelligence Practices
Article 5 strictly outlaws AI practices that pose unacceptable risks to human safety, fundamental rights, and democratic processes within the European Union.
Binding European Union legislative enactment across all 27 Member States.
Calculated on consolidated global group turnover under Article 71 formulas.
Requires specialized corporate tech E&O riders for regulatory defense.
Codified Statutory Requirements & Clauses
Detailed clause-by-clause legal and engineering specifications under Article 5.
Deploying subliminal techniques beyond consciousness or purposefully manipulative/deceptive techniques that materially distort behavior and cause physical or psychological harm.
Exploiting age, disability, or specific socio-economic conditions to materially distort behavior causing significant harm.
Evaluating or classifying natural persons over time based on social behavior or personality traits leading to detrimental or unfavorable treatment in unrelated contexts.
Making risk assessments of natural persons to predict criminal offenses based solely on profiling or personality traits without objective verifiable facts.
Creating or expanding facial recognition databases through untargeted scraping of facial images from the internet or CCTV footage.
Inferring emotions of natural persons in workplace settings and educational institutions, except for strictly medical or safety reasons.
Deducing race, political opinions, trade union membership, religious beliefs, sex life, or sexual orientation from biometric data.
Real-time RBI in publicly accessible spaces for law enforcement, subject to extremely narrow judicial exceptions (targeted search for kidnapping victims, immediate terrorist threat, high-severity crimes).
Article 5 Technical Compliance Protocol
Complete this operational verification protocol to ensure engineering and organizational alignment with Article 5.