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  "title": "EU AI Act - Prohibition on AI Individual Criminal Risk Assessment Based Solely on Profiling (Article 5(1)(d))",
  "domain": "AI Governance & Law",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "last_updated": "2026-04-28",
  "bluf": "EU AI Act (Regulation 2024/1689) Article 5(1)(d) prohibits AI systems used by or on behalf of competent authorities, or by Union institutions, bodies, offices or agencies, to make or assist in making individual risk assessments of natural persons in order to assess or predict the risk of a natural person committing a criminal offence - where the assessment is based solely on the profiling of a natural person or on assessing their personality traits and characteristics; applicable from 2 February 2025 per Article 113; the prohibition targets a specific category of predictive policing AI that generates individual criminal risk scores or classifications using only: (i) statistical profiling based on demographic, behavioural, or social characteristics without specific evidence of individual criminal intent; or (ii) personality trait or characteristic assessments without specific criminal intelligence; the prohibition does not prohibit AI systems used to assess risk based on specific factual indicators of criminal activity or specific intelligence linking an individual to criminal conduct - it prohibits assessments based solely on who a person is (their profile and characteristics), not assessments based on what a person has done or specific intelligence about what they may do; covered prohibited systems include: pure actuarial risk scoring tools that predict individual crime risk from demographic variables and social characteristics alone; AI that classifies individuals as high crime risk based on their network associations, past police contacts, or neighbourhood without specific evidential basis; personality-based threat assessment AI predicting criminal propensity from psychological trait assessments in the absence of specific criminal intelligence; the prohibition addresses a fundamental civil liberties concern that AI-driven profiling without specific evidence criminalises identity rather than conduct.",
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  "dependencies": [
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    "eu-ai-act-article-5-prohibited-practices",
    "eu-ai-act-article-3-definitions",
    "eu-ai-act-article-113-entry-into-force-application",
    "eu-ai-act-high-risk-law-enforcement",
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  "primary_citations_count": 5
}