EU AI Act glossary · Governance· Art. 5 / Annex III(1)
Emotion recognition
Emotion-recognition systems infer a person's emotions from biometric data. The EU AI Act prohibits their use in the workplace and in education (Article 5); elsewhere they are generally high-risk under Annex III.
Narrow exceptions exist for medical or safety reasons. Where not prohibited, providers and deployers face high-risk obligations plus the Article 50 transparency duty to inform exposed persons.
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