The European Commission’s Guidance on Prohibited AI Practices: Unraveling the AI Act

The European Commission’s Guidance on Prohibited AI Practices: Unraveling the AI Act

European Commission’s AI guidelines refine prohibited practices, defining manipulative techniques, social scoring, and biometric data use under the Artificial Intell

The European Commission's Guidance on Prohibited AI Practices: Unraveling the AI Act

The European Commission published its long-awaited Guidelines on Prohibited AI Practices (CGPAIP) on February 4, 2025, two days after the AI Act’s articles on prohibited practices became applicable. The good news is that in clarifying these prohibited practices (and those excluded from its material scope), the CGPAIP also addresses other more general aspects of the AI Act, which comes to provide much-needed legal certainty to all authorities, pr…