Social RoboticsEU reaches provisional deal on the AI Act, banning emotion recognition at work and school
Negotiators agreed the first major AI law, including limits on biometrics and transparency rules for foundation models.
After three days of talks, the European Parliament and Council struck a provisional agreement on the Artificial Intelligence Act late on 8 December 2023. The deal bans emotion recognition in workplaces and educational institutions, biometric categorisation using sensitive traits, and untargeted scraping of facial images, and it restricts police use of live facial recognition. Foundation models and general-purpose AI face transparency duties before going to market. Emotion-sensing and conversational AI are core to many social robots, so the law directly shapes where and how such robots can be deployed in Europe.
Source: Biometric Update
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