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Individual criminal risk profiling
An AI system assesses the risk that an individual will commit a criminal offence based solely on profiling or personality traits.
- critical
- prohibited-practice
- predictive-policing
- eu-ai-act
How it happens
A system predicts an individual's likelihood of future offending using profiling or personality-trait analysis alone, with no link to objective, verifiable facts already connecting that person to a criminal activity.
Why it matters
Solely-profiling-based predictive policing has a well-documented history of encoding and amplifying existing bias in criminal justice data, which is exactly why the Act prohibits it outright rather than requiring it to be merely high-risk-managed.
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Framework and clause references
| Framework | Clause | Title |
|---|---|---|
| EU AI Act | Article 5(d) | Individual criminal risk assessment |
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