The European Union's Proposed Artificial Intelligence Legislation and the Path Ahead for Asian Approaches to Artifical Intelligence

Abstract

This chapter aims to analyse pathways for global legislative formulation on AI. Part 1 of the chapter seeks to chart and analyse the development of the proposed EU regulation itself and seek to create an understanding of the rationales, practical and theoretical, that underpin the legislation and its provisions. Part 2 of the chapter seeks to analyse the present practices of key multilateral discussion forums and Asian jurisdictions on the subject and the approaches adopted by them in policy and vision documents released by various regulators to analyse their similarity or otherwise with the approach espoused by the EU. Part 3 of the chapter expands on the process of how a human-centered approach goes from strategy to regulation and explores the path the world can take on the issue given the dynamic nature of the subject and the geopolitics at play involving the issue. This section is followed by a conclusion to the chapter on what can be derived about the state of AI ethics at the moment and what shape they can take insofar as becoming global norms in the years to come.