This is what is being banned.

• AI used for social scoring (e.g., building risk profiles based on a person’s behavior).
• AI that manipulates a person’s decisions subliminally or deceptively.
• AI that exploits vulnerabilities like age, disability, or socioeconomic status.
• AI that attempts to predict people committing crimes based on their appearance.
• AI that uses biometrics to infer a person’s characteristics, like their sexual orientation.
• AI that collects “real time” biometric data in public places for the purposes of law enforcement.
• AI that tries to infer people’s emotions at work or school.
• AI that creates — or expands — facial recognition databases by scraping images online or from security cameras.

Almost everything on this list is outlawing what an authoritarian regime would want. How long before the EU bans the American Big Tech AI, that it seems is toadying to Trump to enable it.

I fucking love living in the EU.

Progress does not mean blindly using new, unproven technologies without any control or attempt at a moral guideline.