Recognizing the potential threat to citizens’ rights and democracy posed by certain applications of AI, the co-legislators agreed to prohibit:

• Biometric categorization systems that use sensitive characteristics (e.g. political, religious, philosophical beliefs, sexual orientation, race);
• Untargeted scraping of facial images from the internet or CCTV footage to create facial recognition databases;
• Emotion recognition in the workplace and educational institutions;
• Social scoring based on social behavior or personal characteristics;
• AI systems that manipulate human behavior to circumvent their free will;
• AI used to exploit the vulnerabilities of people (due to their age, disability, social or economic situation).

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