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Overview of Global AI Regulatory Developments and Some Tips to Reduce Risk

by Avi Gesser, Matt Kelly, Anna Gressel, Corey Goldstein, Samuel Allaman, Michael Pizzi, Jackie Dorward, Lex Gaillard, and Ned Terrace

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Top row from left to right: Avi Gesser, Matt Kelly, Anna Gressel, Corey Goldstein, and Samuel Allaman
Bottom row from left to right: Michael Pizzi, Jackie Dorward, Lex Gaillard, and Ned Terrace (photos courtesy of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP)

With last week’s political deal in European Parliament to advance the European Union’s groundbreaking AI Act (the “EU AI Act”), Europe is one step closer to enacting the world’s first comprehensive AI regulatory framework. Yet while the EU is poised to become the first jurisdiction to take this step, other countries are not far behind. In recent months, the U.S., Canada, Brazil, and China have all introduced measures that illustrate their respective goals and approaches to regulating AI, with the AI regimes in Canada and Brazil appearing to be modeled substantially on the EU AI Act.

In this blog post, we provide an overview of these legislative developments, highlighting key similarities, differences and trends between each country’s approach as well as providing a few considerations for companies deploying significant AI systems.

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New Automated Decision-Making Laws: Four Tips for Compliance

by Avi Gesser, Robert Maddox, Anna Gressel, Mengyi Xu, Samuel Allaman, Andres Gutierrez

With the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence (“AI”) and other complex algorithms across industries, many business decisions that used to be made by humans are now being made (either solely or primarily) by algorithms or models. Examples of automated decision-making (“ADM”) include determining:

  • Who gets an interview, a job, a promotion, or employment discipline;
  • Which ads get displayed for a user on a website or a social media feed;
  • Whether someone’s credit application should be approved, and at what interest rate;
  • Which investments should be made;
  • When a car should break or swerve to stay in a lane;
  • Which emails are spam and should not be read; and
  • Which transactions should be flagged or blocked as possibly fraudulent, money laundering, or in violation of sanctions regulations.

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