The EU's AI Act introduces significant regulatory control over AI systems, with the first compliance deadline starting February 2024, enabling regulators to ban AI systems deemed to pose unacceptable risks. The framework categorizes AI applications into four risk levels, with prohibited uses including social scoring, emotion inference at work, and unauthorized biometric data collection, carrying potential fines up to €35 million or 7% of annual revenue.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/02/ai-systems-with-unacceptable-risk-are-now-banned-in-the-eu/

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