European Commission proposal to ban several uses of artificial intelligence met fierce opposition from several digital rights advocates in Europe. The proposal would ban, with some exceptions, four broad uses of AI. It includes several loopholes that could lead to abuse, and it fails to include a mechanism to add other AI applications to the ban list. It creates new government authorities, but the responsibilities of those authorities may overlap with separate authorities devoted to overall data protection. The final AI ban would be against real-time remote biometric identification systems in publicly accessible spaces for the purpose of law enforcement.”]