European Union Passes Landmark Artificial Intelligent Act. Dr. Hamid Ekbia Speaks on What it Means for the Global State of AI Regulation.

These regulations come as the U.S. Congress remains in the early stages of the process to set appropriate guardrails. According to Dr. Ekbia, director of the Autonomous Systems Policy Institute at Syracuse University and the leader of the Academic Alliance for AI Policy, the EU law “is certain to put pressure on other countries, especially the U.S., to come up with their own regulations. The question is, what type of regulation? Big players are going to put pressure on the Congress to ‘compensate’ for the EU’s constraint in the name of ‘innovation.’” Read more in the news report from The National Desk.