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White & Case Global AI Regulatory Tracker
webA continuously updated legal tracker from law firm White & Case, useful for understanding the global AI regulatory landscape and how different jurisdictions approach AI governance and compliance.
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Summary
White & Case's AI Watch tracker provides a comprehensive, jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction overview of AI regulatory developments worldwide, covering frameworks from the EU AI Act to Canada's AIDA and beyond. It highlights key trends in AI governance including divergent definitions of 'AI,' varying risk-based approaches, and the challenges businesses face navigating a fragmented international regulatory landscape.
Key Points
- •Tracks AI regulatory developments across multiple jurisdictions including EU, Canada, US, UK, and international bodies like G7, UN, OECD.
- •Identifies core challenge: 'AI' is defined differently across jurisdictions, complicating international compliance strategies.
- •Most jurisdictions seek to balance AI innovation with harm prevention, but approaches vary significantly creating fragmentation risk.
- •The EU AI Act is highlighted as the first comprehensive horizontal legal framework for AI regulation across member states.
- •International coordination efforts include the UK-hosted Global AI Safety Summit (Nov 2023) aimed at encouraging safe AI development.
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# AI Watch: Global regulatory tracker
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Keeping track of AI regulatory developments around the world.
## The global dash to regulate AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has made enormous strides in recent years and has increasingly moved into the public consciousness.
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Increases in computational power, coupled with advances in machine learning, have fueled the rapid rise of AI. This has brought enormous opportunities, as new AI applications have given rise to new ways of doing business. It has also brought potential risks, from unintended impacts on individuals (e.g., AI errors harming an individual's credit score or public reputation) to the risk of [misuse of AI](https://www.whitecase.com/insight-alert/doj-doubles-down-warnings-against-ai-misuse) by malicious third parties (e.g., by manipulating AI systems to produce inaccurate or misleading output, or by using AI to create deepfakes).
Governments and regulatory bodies around the world have had to act quickly to try to ensure that their regulatory frameworks do not become obsolete. In addition, international organizations such as the G7, the UN, the Council of Europe and the OECD have responded to this technological shift by issuing their own AI frameworks. But they are all scrambling to stay abreast of technological developments, and already there are signs that emerging efforts to regulate AI will struggle to keep pace. In an effort to introduce some degree of international consensus, the UK government organized the first [global AI Safety Summit](https://www.whitecase.com/node/119196) in November 2023, with the aim of encouraging the safe and responsible development of AI around the world. The EU is also implementing the first comprehensive horizontal legal framework for the regulation of AI systems across EU Member States (the EU AI Act is addressed in more detail here: [AI watch: Global regulatory tracker - European Union](https://www.whitecase.com/node/121711), and you can read our EU AI Act Handbook [here](https://www.whitecase.com/node/134856)).
Most jurisdictions have sought to strike a balance between encouraging AI innovation and investment, while at the same time attempting to create rules to protect against possible harms. However, j
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