Four lessons from 2023 that tell us where AI regulation is going

Most broadly, we are likely to see the strategies that emerged last year continue, expand, and begin to be implemented. For example, following President Biden's executive order, various US government agencies may outline new best practices but empower AI companies to police themselves. And across the pond, companies and regulators will begin to grapple with Europe's AI Act and its risk-based approach. It certainly won't be seamless, and there's bound to be a lot of discussion about how these new laws and policies actually work in practice. While writing this piece, I took some time to reflect on how we got here.