Section 2.3 - Forbidden applications

Development of AI systems for the following purposes are prohibited¹:

• (a) Determining a person’s race, sex, gender, or sexual orientation,
• (b) Controlling a deadly weapon autonomously,
• (c) Impersonation of an individual, and
• (d) Purposeful generation of disinformation or misinformation.

Applicable technical resources

1. The rationale for banning these applications is two-fold. Some, such as in (a), are scientifically unsound applications of AI technology. Others, like (b)-(d), have the potential to inflict large-scale bodily or psychological harms on an individual. ↩