Restricted AI Categories
The EU AI Act places special requirements on AI systems that fall into these categories. If your AI system fits any of these descriptions, you may need to comply with additional regulations.
Face, voice or emotion recognition
Remote face-ID, voice matching, mood-tracking cameras, or grouping people by traits (age, ethnicity, health, etc.).
"Life-changing" decisions about people
Hiring, firing, promotions, credit or loan approvals, insurance pricing, social-benefit eligibility, housing allocations.
Education assessments & monitoring
Deciding school or university admissions, grading exams, adaptive tutoring that sets marks, AI proctoring for cheating.
Medical diagnosis, treatment or health insurance
Tools that help diagnose patients, suggest treatments, triage emergencies, or set health-insurance premiums.
Safety-critical control systems
Steering cars, drones, trains or ships; running power grids, water, gas, telecom backbones, factory robots, lifts.
Emergency dispatch & triage
AI that classifies 112/999 calls, dispatches police/fire/ambulance, or ranks patients' urgency.
Law-enforcement or court support
Predicting crime risk, profiling offenders or victims, analysing evidence, lie-detection, sentencing or legal-research aides.
Border control & immigration
Risk-scoring travellers, assessing visa/asylum claims, biometric gates, interview lie-detectors.
Election or referendum influence
Targeting voters with personalised messages intended to sway how they vote.
Generative AI that users can see or hear
Chatbots, voice assistants, image/video/speech generators, deep-fake filters, AI "virtual influencers."
Large general-purpose / foundation models
Any big language or multimodal model you host or release that others can fine-tune for many tasks.
Social-scoring & mass profiling
Rating people's "trustworthiness," scraping the web or CCTV to build giant face databases, or predicting crimes from location/behaviour data.
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Important Note
This list provides general categories for assessment purposes. The actual determination of whether your specific AI system falls under EU AI Act requirements depends on many technical and contextual factors. For specific compliance decisions, consult with qualified legal professionals.