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Prohibited practice

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An AI practice banned outright by AI Act Article 5, such as manipulative techniques that cause significant harm, social scoring, untargeted scraping of facial images, emotion recognition at work or school, and most real-time remote biometric identification in public for law enforcement 1. No risk acceptance can cover one.

Developed in
ch. 18, Prohibited practices (Article 5)
Chapters
ch. 18, EU AI Act
Contrast with
High-risk AI system
Source
1 numbered reference, listed below

Where it is used

6 chapters of the Body of Knowledge use the term. Each link opens the first section that does.

Patterns that use this term

2 pattern pages use the term, most mentions first.

  • Risk acceptance

    A named, signed and expiring decision by someone with the authority a residual band requires, that a risk may remain for a bounded period under named…

  • AI Act (EU)

    Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, the EU's horizontal, risk-tiered law for AI, amended by the Digital Omnibus.

Sources

  1. [1] Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act), consolidated text as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 (Digital Omnibus on AI, in force 27 Jul 2026; definitions in Art. 3, incl. 3(1), 3(3) to 3(14), 3(14b), 3(20), 3(22), 3(23), 3(29) to 3(32), 3(49), 3(55) to 3(57), 3(60), 3(61), 3(63), 3(68); Arts. 4, 5, 6 (incl. 6(3) third subparagraph, profiling), 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 22 to 27 (incl. 26(11)), 40, 41, 43, 47, 48, 50, 53 (incl. 53(1)(c)), 55, 57, 60, 72, 73, 86; Annexes I, III, IV). Publications Office of the EU (EUR-Lex). 2026-07-27. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/2026-07-27/eng (verified: primary)

Definitions of legal terms paraphrase the cited text, which governs. Dated statements are as of .

Cite this term

García Aibar, J. (2026). Prohibited practice. In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis & Body of Knowledge (v0.5.0), Glossary. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197. https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/prohibited-practice. CC BY 4.0

BibTeX

@misc{aige2026prohibitedpractice,
  author  = {Jorge García Aibar},
  title   = {{Prohibited practice}},
  note    = {Glossary, AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis \& Body of Knowledge, version 0.5.0},
  year    = {2026},
  doi     = {10.5281/zenodo.22956197},
  url     = {https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/prohibited-practice}
}