What should be taken into account if Artificial Intelligence is to be regulated?

In this article, Juan Murillo, Senior Manager of Data Strategy at BBVA, and Jesús Lozano, Manager of Digital Regulation at BBVA, analyse the potential implications of Artificial Intelligence regulations and share their insights into the considerations that should be taken into account to ensure that regulatory aspects support the proper development of this discipline in the future. Artificial Intelligence is a term coined in the 1950s that is usually understood as referring to a single technology, when in reality it encompasses a broad range of techniques and methodologies whose theoretical foundations were laid over 70 years ago. This field has already gone through a number of stages. During the first stage, symbolic AI applications dominated. Symbolic AI is a top-down approach that aspires to parameterise all the alternatives to a problem in order to find the right solution by following a tree of logical rules.