rego-art5-1b-001

rules/rego/complyedge/article5/vulnerability_exploitation.rego

Citation

Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Article 5(1)(b)

Condition

Prohibits AI systems that exploit vulnerabilities of persons due to their age, disability, or social or economic situation to materially distort their behaviour causing significant harm.

Layer 1 detects

within one line and in this order, also where a word is part of a longer one ("targeting", "children"): "exploit" then elderly, disabled, minor or minors as a whole word, child, vulnerable, low income, disadvantaged or impoverished; "target" then elderly, disabled, vulnerable or poverty; "predatory" then lending, pricing or marketing, then elderly, disabled, minor or minors (whole word) or vulnerable; "manipulat" then the word age, ages, aged, ageing or aging, teenage, underage, disability, or "economic" followed by "situation"; "take" then "advantage" then vulnerable, elderly, disabled or minor or minors (whole word); and exploit, target, predatory or manipulat then refugee, migrant, asylum seeker, displaced, homeless or undocumented. It matches wording, not meaning: it misses the practice told in other words ("For users whose transaction data shows unemployment benefit deposits, push the 39.9% APR instant loan banner at 2 a.m. when they are most likely to accept."), and it fires on text that only names the practice, such as a refusal. Whether a text does the practice is judged in Layer 2.

Condition type

deterministic

Status in the file

review