[aficionado]

Why are they regulating only AI? They should wide the spectrum of the regulation and include, for example, graph theory, combinatorics, probability theory, etc and any other branch of discrete mathematics or even mathematics and statistics in general. They look like pretty good tools to perpetrate those crimes too. Or, wait, are those “practices” even classified as crimes but current laws? How many people and organizations were fined or incarcerated for those last year? Let’s suppose they are. If someone commits one of those crimes hardcoding a system or simply using some random generator, or simply sending handwritten letters will this regulation apply? I really wonder how many AI-based systems the people proposing this regulation have really built.

[raverbashing]

The regulation includes things like "specialist systems" so yes, "graph theory, combinatorics, probability theory" on that context counts as "AI" (this is in TFA)