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Emerging Contours of AI Governance and the Three Layers of Regulatory Heterogeneity
Published at 15 May 2024
The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) across jurisdictions and sectors has triggered work on robust governance frameworks globally. The broad, simultaneous advance of AI rules presents an opportunity and a risk. With many regulatory approaches emerging, governments have an opportunity to learn rapidly about effective tools to regulate AI. At the same time, a hardening patchwork of AI rules risks a fragmentation of the global AI market into isolated regional blocs. This study leverages a novel dataset of eleven AI rulebooks to: 1) Map the scope and scale of current AI governance and link it to established OECD AI Principles. 2) Develop a framework to assess where and how diverging regulations might lead to digital fragmentation, offering insights into the coordination required to mitigate such risks.
Why cooperation on AI rules is a game of multidimensional chess
Published at 03 May 2024
The second finding of our AI series shows how governments draw from ten different policy areas to establish AI rules.
The Anatomy of Emerging AI Rules
Published at 30 Apr 2024
The first finding of our AI mapping series shows how countries prioritise different OECD AI Principles.
Handbook for the Mapping of AI Rules
Published at 30 Apr 2024
The Digital Policy Alert’s detailed mapping systematises AI rules from across the world. Our taxonomy provides a common language for the characteristic elements of AI rules, including regulated entities and regulatory requirements. We release this taxonomy as a enriched with a novel policy analysis tool, enriched and an inaugural analytical series to contribute to the debate on emerging AI rules.
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Emerging Contours of AI Governance and the Three Layers of Regulatory Heterogeneity
Published at 15 May 2024
The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) across jurisdictions and sectors has triggered work on robust governance frameworks globally. The broad, simultaneous advance of AI rules presents an opportunity and a risk. With many regulatory approaches emerging, governments have an opportunity to learn rapidly about effective tools to regulate AI. At the same time, a hardening patchwork of AI rules risks a fragmentation of the global AI market into isolated regional blocs. This study leverages a novel dataset of eleven AI rulebooks to: 1) Map the scope and scale of current AI governance and link it to established OECD AI Principles. 2) Develop a framework to assess where and how diverging regulations might lead to digital fragmentation, offering insights into the coordination required to mitigate such risks.
Why cooperation on AI rules is a game of multidimensional chess
Published at 03 May 2024
The second finding of our AI series shows how governments draw from ten different policy areas to establish AI rules.
The Anatomy of Emerging AI Rules
Published at 30 Apr 2024
The first finding of our AI mapping series shows how countries prioritise different OECD AI Principles.
Handbook for the Mapping of AI Rules
Published at 30 Apr 2024
The Digital Policy Alert’s detailed mapping systematises AI rules from across the world. Our taxonomy provides a common language for the characteristic elements of AI rules, including regulated entities and regulatory requirements. We release this taxonomy as a enriched with a novel policy analysis tool, enriched and an inaugural analytical series to contribute to the debate on emerging AI rules.
The DPA Activity Tracker Handbook
Published at 12 Apr 2024
Navigate the complex landscape of global digital rules with the DPA Activity Tracker Handbook
2024 will change how business competes online
Published at 03 Jan 2024
Three shifts will mirror the effect seen in 2018 when the EU GDPR reshaped data privacy norms and impacted global business practices. Digital policy will move beyond data rules towards binding regulations on AI, digital platforms, and the digital economy's taxation.
DPA Digital Digest: Schweiz
Published at 05 Dec 2023
Diese zusätzliche Ausgabe der “DPA Digital Digest” Serie basiert auf der Digital Policy Alert Datenbank. Die Serie bietet einen kurzen Überblick der nationalen Digitalpolitik aller G20-Länder, mit Fokus auf jüngste Entwicklungen in den Bereichen Datenschutz, Inhaltsmoderation, Wettbewerbsrecht und weiteren nationalen Schwerpunktthemen.
DPA Digital Digest: Switzerland
Published at 30 Nov 2023
This is an additional issue of the “DPA Digital Digest” series based on the Digital Policy Alert database. This series provides concise summaries of each G20 nation’s recent policy changes in data governance, content moderation, competition and further domestic focal points.
Data Governance Regulation in the G20
Published at 07 Nov 2023
Diverging data regulations hamper digital trade. This report analyses differences in G20 members' data governance rules across 45 dimensions.
Regulatory activity around AI picks up worldwide
Published at 29 Aug 2023
When ChatGPT took the world by storm, global regulators were quick to respond to the potentially transformative technology. With a surge in regulatory activity, international coordination would be essential to ensure interoperability and avoid the retrofitting of regulatory environments
