The Global Battle to Regulate AI Is Just Beginning

Dan Nechita has spent the past year shuttling back and forth between Brussels and Strasbourg. As the head of cabinet (essentially chief of staff) for one of the two rapporteurs leading negotiations over the EU's proposed new AI law, he's helped hammer out compromises between those who want the technology to be tightly regulated and those who believe innovation needs more space to evolve. The discussions have, Nechita says, been "long and tedious." First there were debates about how to define AI--what it was that Europe was even regulating. "That was a very, very, very long discussion," Nechita says.