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Prohibited practices: AI obligations

Practical requirements extracted from policy instruments, with the source article, the actors they bind, evidence examples and original framework mappings. Legal requirements are marked; everything else is voluntary guidance.

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Legal requirement Prohibited practices Texas (United States)

Developers and deployers must not use AI to incite self-harm, harm to others or crime

Texas Responsible AI Governance Act (TRAIGA) · Business and Commerce Code Section 551.052

A person may not develop or deploy an AI system in a manner that intentionally aims to incite or encourage a person to commit physical self-harm, including suicide, to harm another person, or to engage in criminal activity. The prohibition turns on the developer's or deployer's intent rather than on the system's effects, which is the pattern followed throughout the Act's prohibited-use provisions.

Verified (a factual check against the official source, not a legal review) Applies from 1 Jan 2026
Legal requirement Prohibited practices Texas (United States)

Developers and deployers must not use AI with the intent to unlawfully discriminate against a protected class

Texas Responsible AI Governance Act (TRAIGA) · Business and Commerce Code Section 551.056

A person may not develop or deploy an AI system with the intent to unlawfully discriminate against a protected class in violation of state or federal law. A disparate impact on a protected class is not, by itself, sufficient to show an intent to discriminate, and insurers and financial institutions acting under their own regulatory regimes are treated separately.

Verified (a factual check against the official source, not a legal review) Applies from 1 Jan 2026
Legal requirement Prohibited practices Texas (United States)

Developers and distributors must not build AI intended to produce child sexual abuse material or unlawful sexual deepfakes

Texas Responsible AI Governance Act (TRAIGA) · Business and Commerce Code Section 551.057

A person may not develop or distribute an AI system with the sole intent of producing, assisting or aiding in producing, or distributing child pornography or unlawful deep-fake videos or images, including sexually explicit deepfakes of a person without consent, or of engaging in sexually explicit text-based conversations while impersonating or imitating a child, in violation of the Texas Penal Code.

Verified (a factual check against the official source, not a legal review) Applies from 1 Jan 2026
Legal requirement Prohibited practices European Union

Do not deploy or provide AI for prohibited practices

EU AI Act · Article 5

Article 5 bans placing on the market, putting into service or using AI for listed practices, including subliminal or manipulative techniques that cause significant harm, exploitation of vulnerabilities, social scoring by public or private actors leading to detrimental treatment, untargeted scraping of facial images to build recognition databases, emotion recognition in workplaces and education institutions except for medical or safety reasons, biometric categorisation to infer protected characteristics, and real-time remote biometric identification in publicly accessible spaces for law enforcement outside narrow exceptions.

Pending review (a factual check against the official source, not a legal review) Applies from 2 Feb 2025
Legal requirement Prohibited practices Texas (United States)

Governmental entities must not use AI for biometric identification from public data without consent where it infringes rights

Texas Responsible AI Governance Act (TRAIGA) · Business and Commerce Code Section 551.054

A governmental entity may not develop or deploy an AI system for the purpose of uniquely identifying a specific individual using biometric data, or of gathering images or other media from the internet or another public source without the individual's consent, where doing so would infringe a right guaranteed under the United States or Texas constitutions or violate state or federal law. The Act preserves lawful uses that comply with existing biometric-privacy law.

Verified (a factual check against the official source, not a legal review) Applies from 1 Jan 2026
Legal requirement Prohibited practices Texas (United States)

Governmental entities must not use AI for social scoring

Texas Responsible AI Governance Act (TRAIGA) · Business and Commerce Code Section 551.053

A governmental entity may not develop or deploy an AI system that evaluates or classifies natural persons or groups on the basis of their social behaviour or personal characteristics, with the intent to calculate or assign a social score or similar valuation that leads to detrimental or unfavourable treatment unrelated to the context in which the data was collected, or that is unjustified or disproportionate to the behaviour.

Verified (a factual check against the official source, not a legal review) Applies from 1 Jan 2026

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Does a voluntary obligation have legal force?

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Why do some instruments have no obligations listed?

Because nobody has broken them out yet. Most instruments are recorded at summary level first; obligations are added jurisdiction by jurisdiction. The coverage and open-gaps pages publish exactly what is missing rather than hiding it.