The White House Office of Science and Technology policy has released draft regulatory principles for the governance of AI. The memorandum proposes policy considerations to guide regulatory and non-regulatory oversight. Notably we also have a legislative definition of AI adopted from the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act: "(1) Any artificial system that performs tasks… Continue reading White House principles on AI governance
Category: AI: What is it?
Canadian and EU definitions of Artificial Intelligence; which is better?
I wrote last week about an apparent legal definition of artificial intelligence in a Canadian treasury board directive. At about the same time, the EU was rolling out a discussion paper about a potential definition of AI that looks very much like the kind of thing you would start to insert in legal documents. Here's the Canadian… Continue reading Canadian and EU definitions of Artificial Intelligence; which is better?
Did Canada roll out the first legal defintion of artificial intelligence?
The Canadian government, via its Treasury Board, now has a month old Directive on Automated Decision Making. The directive, applying to federal government departments, is to guide the application of Automated Decision Systems. The intent is to ensure the use of such systems is done with limited risk, with procedural fairness, due process, with assessment of… Continue reading Did Canada roll out the first legal defintion of artificial intelligence?
Undefined
A new US senate bill has been introduced to regulate machine learing algorithms. The content is discussed here. What caught my eye was the definition of "automated decision system." I have suggested previously that a definition of artificial intelligence is important for successful regulation. This appears to be a be a work around. Rather than define artificial… Continue reading Undefined
Standing still.
Here's a recap of what US legislators accomplished on the tech (including AI) regulation front in 2018. https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article223939600.html Spoiler alert: there's a lot of words in the article, but the answer is nothing. OK so what legislative excitements will abound in 2019? Spoiler alert: not much. This, according to the article, often because legislators don't… Continue reading Standing still.
A legal defintion of AI, Part III
I keep rereading this because, as I've mentioned in other posts, no one seems to have spent much other time on a legal defintion despite that being a fairly important first step to useful regulation. Everytime I read it, something else pops up in it as interesting. In this case I was looking at the proposed… Continue reading A legal defintion of AI, Part III
A legal definition of AI?
Great question. If you are going to regulate it, which is a lot of what this blog intends to be about, or if you even hope to be able to grapple with it in legislation, you are going to have to be able to name it. As far as I can tell, this is the… Continue reading A legal definition of AI?
