Spain has become the first country in the EU to establish a special agency for regulating AI.
On 22 August, the Council of Ministers approved a Royal Decree to establish the Spanish Agency for the Supervision of AI (AESIA): https://lnkd.in/gU3JjqKR
AESIA will oversee Spain's national AI strategy (which includes calling for Spain to lead global development of Spanish-speaking AI tools). Apart from that, not much has been revealed at this stage.
💡 MY THOUGHTS
While Spain is the first to establish an AI regulatory agency, we will expect to see other EU countries following suit in the lead up to the EU AI Act (which is likely to fully pass around end of the year). After all, the EU AI Act proposes to require each EU country to establish a national supervisory authority to supervise the application and implementation of the requirements of the EU AI Act domestically.
Noting the above context, I'm curious to see how the AI regulatory landscape across Europe will play out when you allow each nation to implement the EU AI Act in their own way. Will we see harmonised approaches with very minimal variations across domestic implementations, or will we see fragmented implementations/interpretations where EU nations try to outcompete each another in the regulatory space to attract AI innovation, investment and talent (but still stay within the agreed confines of the EU AI Act)?
But I guess this is not a unique problem to AI regulation, but a challenge with EU laws generally. We can look to the GDPR (i.e. the data protection regulation in the EU) as an example. In the 5 years since the GDPR's passing, we've noticed significant GDPR cases being litigated in Ireland due to a large number of US big-tech companies basing their international headquarters in Dublin. Some commentators have argued that this has given the Irish Data Protection Commission (i.e. the regulator/enforcer of GDPR in Ireland) “outsized influence over these tech companies' behaviour“ and the broader GDPR interpretation (see source article): https://lnkd.in/gWvu4xiW
Any thoughts?
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On 22 August, the Council of Ministers approved a Royal Decree to establish the Spanish Agency for the Supervision of AI (AESIA): https://lnkd.in/gU3JjqKR
AESIA will oversee Spain's national AI strategy (which includes calling for Spain to lead global development of Spanish-speaking AI tools). Apart from that, not much has been revealed at this stage.
💡 MY THOUGHTS
While Spain is the first to establish an AI regulatory agency, we will expect to see other EU countries following suit in the lead up to the EU AI Act (which is likely to fully pass around end of the year). After all, the EU AI Act proposes to require each EU country to establish a national supervisory authority to supervise the application and implementation of the requirements of the EU AI Act domestically.
Noting the above context, I'm curious to see how the AI regulatory landscape across Europe will play out when you allow each nation to implement the EU AI Act in their own way. Will we see harmonised approaches with very minimal variations across domestic implementations, or will we see fragmented implementations/interpretations where EU nations try to outcompete each another in the regulatory space to attract AI innovation, investment and talent (but still stay within the agreed confines of the EU AI Act)?
But I guess this is not a unique problem to AI regulation, but a challenge with EU laws generally. We can look to the GDPR (i.e. the data protection regulation in the EU) as an example. In the 5 years since the GDPR's passing, we've noticed significant GDPR cases being litigated in Ireland due to a large number of US big-tech companies basing their international headquarters in Dublin. Some commentators have argued that this has given the Irish Data Protection Commission (i.e. the regulator/enforcer of GDPR in Ireland) “outsized influence over these tech companies' behaviour“ and the broader GDPR interpretation (see source article): https://lnkd.in/gWvu4xiW
Any thoughts?
👓 Want more?
Check out my global AI regulation tracker (FREE):Â https://lnkd.in/gcKRYUAx
I am a technology lawyer and A.I. programmer. For more AI legal/regulatory/market updates, follow me (Raymond Sun) and let's learn together! :)
#spain #euaiact #artificialintelligence #ai #breaking
