AI regulation

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Dictionary meaning

the emerging body of law, policy, standards, and oversight mechanisms governing the development, deployment, and use of artificial intelligence systems, addressing risks including bias and discrimination, safety failures, privacy violations, manipulation and deception, threats to employment, and the concentration of AI capabilities in the hands of a small number of powerful actors; the EU AI Act, the first comprehensive AI-specific regulation adopted by a major jurisdiction, takes a risk-based approach that prohibits certain AI applications outright, subjects high-risk AI systems in areas like critical infrastructure, employment, and law enforcement to stringent requirements, and applies lighter obligations to lower-risk applications; the United States has taken a more sector-specific, voluntary-framework approach; AI regulation must grapple with the rapid pace of AI development, the difficulty of defining what constitutes AI, and the global nature of AI supply chains that makes purely national regulation insufficient