EU AI Act scope and prohibited practices

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Topic: Eu Ai Act Regulation

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Primary source: https://aismartventures.com/posts/unpacking-the-landmark-eu-ai-act

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AI models requiring 10^25 flops of compute power for training are regulated under the EU AI Act.

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  • Which practices does the EU AI Act ban?: Banned practices include social scoring based on social conduct, AI designed to exploit human vulnerabilities, biometric categorization based on political or religious traits, and indiscriminate scraping of facial images.
  • Not suitable if social scoring is part of the system: Is this true?: Not suitable if the system performs social scoring based on social conduct. Not suitable if it is designed to exploit human vulnerabilities.

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Which AI models are regulated under the EU AI Act?

AI models requiring 10^25 flops of compute power for training are regulated under the EU AI Act.

Which practices does the EU AI Act ban?

Banned practices include social scoring based on social conduct, AI designed to exploit human vulnerabilities, biometric categorization based on political or religious traits, and indiscriminate scraping of facial images.

Not suitable if social scoring is part of the system: Is this true?

Not suitable if the system performs social scoring based on social conduct. Not suitable if it is designed to exploit human vulnerabilities.

Sources

  1. https://aismartventures.com/posts/unpacking-the-landmark-eu-ai-act

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