Will Data Protection Laws Kill Artificial Intelligence? - CPO Magazine

There has always been a disconnect between the current law and the rapid pace of technological innovation. Laws used to regulate the Internet, for example, were based on laws used to regulate the earlier era of analog telecommunication. And now it looks like European lawmakers are repeating these same kinds of mistakes when it comes to how data protection laws will impact artificial intelligence (AI), which is unlike anything that lawmakers have ever seen before. In fact, it's probably not being hyperbolic to say that most lawmakers have very limited knowledge – if any – about machine learning, neural networks and all the finer points of how an AI system works. What they do understand, though, is data – and so it's no surprise that they have been working very hard to protect consumer data using data protection laws.