Debate continues over the pros and cons of regulating artificial intelligence

What are the issues of most concern for businesses in the EU Commission's recently published AI Act proposals? Our virtual gathering included representatives from the UK, Netherlands and USA, stretching across the automotive, energy, education, professional services and tech sectors. As with our first AI roundtable, the discussion ranged far and wide. A notable difficulty with the Commission's draft regulation on AI (as proposed, its "AI Act") is that it assumes that an end-to-end "provider" of an AI system can be identified and fixed with liability. The AI Act defines such service providers as the person or organisation that developed the system or had it developed.