Artificial intelligence and law: emerging divergent national regulatory approaches in a changing landscape of fast-evolving AI technologies
Lijun Liz Zhao · Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks · 2023
As AI encompasses a broad range of technologies and is evolving rapidly, this contribution argues that policy-makers at both national and global levels are facing the 'pacing problem' - technology is developing faster than the policy-makers' ability to keep up. While AI largely is unregulated across WTO members on a global scale, a handful of AI powers - the US, EU, UK and China - have started to regulate AI to secure the first-mover advantage. This contribution finds that the AI powers have developed divergent regulatory responses to handle the pacing problem at the national level. At the international level, the pacing problem also exists. This contribution examines the deficiency of global trade law governing areas of trade in goods, services and trade-related intellectual property rights.