AI Laws Are Coming

The pace of adoption for AI and cognitive technologies continues unabated with widespread, worldwide, rapid adoption. Adoption of AI by enterprises and organizations continues to grow, as evidenced by a recent survey showing growth across each of the seven patterns of AI. However, with this growth of adoption comes strain as existing regulation and laws struggle to deal with emerging challenges. As a result, governments around the world are moving quickly to ensure that existing laws, regulations, and legal constructs remain relevant in the face of technology change and can deal with new, emerging challenges posed by AI. Research firm Cognilytica recently published a report on Worldwide AI Laws and Regulations that explores the latest legal and regulatory actions taken by countries around the world across nine different AI-relevant areas. Specifically, the report analyzed emerging laws and regulations pertaining to the use of facial recognition and computer vision, operation and development of autonomous vehicles, issues of AI-relevant data privacy, challenges arising from conversational systems and chatbots, the emergence of the possibility of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS), concerns around AI ethics and bias, aspects of AI-supported decision making, the potential for malicious use of AI, and other regulations and laws pertaining to the use, creation, or interaction with AI systems.