The EU law will, however, be the first to cover an extensive range of activity from copyright to disinformation to discrimination. The EU legislation could serve a broader purpose by inspiring similar laws in other jurisdictions and by arresting the development of undesirable AI technology that cannot train on European data, such as indiscriminate scraping of text or images to generate synthetic content.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday that he will appoint a new panel on artificial intelligence (AI), which will be tasked with delivering recommendations on addressing the new technology by the end of the year.