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Article 5(1)(b)

CurrentFrom 2 Feb 2025

Do Not Exploit Vulnerabilities Using AI in a Manner That Causes Significant Harm

Applies to Provider; Deployer.

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Governance & Accountability

Tracker Guidance

Your organization should not place on the market, put into service, or use an AI system that exploits a person's or group's vulnerabilities due to age, disability, or a specific social or economic situation in a way that materially distorts behaviour and causes, or is reasonably likely to cause, significant harm.

Official text

Article 5(1)(b)Official source
(b) the placing on the market, the putting into service or the use of an AI system that exploits any of the vulnerabilities of a natural person or a specific group of persons due to their age, disability or a specific social or economic situation, with the objective, or the effect, of materially distorting the behaviour of that person or a person belonging to that group in a manner that causes or is reasonably likely to cause that person or another person significant harm;

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Article 5(1)(b): Do Not Exploit Vulnerabilities Using AI in a Manner That Causes Significant Harm | EU AI Act Library