What Europe’s AI regulation moment will mean for the world
The European Union’s artificial-intelligence law has some predicting a spate of Brussels copycats. Close, but not quite.
“IT IS the AI moment.”
So went the declaration from International Telecommunications Union secretary-general Doreen Bodgan-Martin at the conclusion of a United Nations summit in Geneva on Jul 7. At a historic UN Security Council meeting 11 days later, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres agreed. So did nations and regulators.
A desire has emerged from powerful quarters to protect citizens from the potential harms of artificial intelligence – issues that are known (discrimination, privacy violations, copyright theft) and those which are not. Yet.
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