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Global AI regulation—a race to set the rules?

08 December 2023 / Felicity Potter , Helen Rainford
Issue: 8052 / Categories: Features , Profession , Technology , Artificial intelligence
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Felicity Potter & Helen Rainford compare & contrast different approaches to tackling the challenges of AI
  • The success of any regulation may well hinge on cross jurisdictional co-operation to provide greater clarity to those developing and using AI systems.

The UK held the world’s first AI Safety Summit last month, where 28 countries signed the Bletchley Declaration and agreed to work together to ensure AI is used in a ‘human-centric, trustworthy and responsible’ way.

The countries recognised the importance of pro-innovation and proportionate governance and a ‘regulator approach that maximises the benefits and takes into account the risks associated with AI’ but emphasised those developing AI capabilities ‘have a particularly strong responsibility for ensuring the safety of those AI systems’.

Further summits are to be held next year, however it remains to be seen whether any international agreement on AI regulation can be reached or whether the race to regulation between the various countries has begun.

The EU has been a regulatory frontrunner, having started

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