With the power and benefits that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has brought along, also came great concerns and difficulties or grey areas in implementation. This is why I believe that this Act was indeed a landmark and a huge necessity for the European legal framework. From a fundamental rights perspective, we need to ensure prevention of any form of prejudice, discrimination or injustice through the use of AI. In this vote, I voted against the use of AI in ‘real-time’ and ‘post’ RBI, for the purpose of predictive policing, emotion recognition systems in certain areas, social scoring by public and private entities, and biometric categorisation, and also against the scraping of biometric data from CCTV footage or the internet. I believe that this is crucial in order to ensure that the fundamental rights and basic human decency of every citizen in our Union are preserved and respected. I believe that this Act is a step in the right direction and that it will be seeing even further improvements in the future, building on the achievements of the current text to better adapt with the times. For all these reasons, I have voted in favour of this report. Unverified source (2023)