On April 22, 2025, the AI Office within the EU Commission launched a multi-stakeholder consultation to assist in the preparation of guidelines aiming at clarifying the scope of the rules for providers of GPAI models in the AI...more
On 2 February 2025, the first provisions of the EU’s groundbreaking AI Act started to apply. These provisions include a range of AI-related practices that are now prohibited and a duty on companies to introduce AI literacy...more
On the 13 January 2025, the UK Government endorsed a new and potentially transformative AI Opportunities Action Plan. The announcement makes clear an ambition to invest in, and promote, AI development by the private sector to...more
Businesses across the world are currently looking at ways of implementing artificial intelligence (AI) in their operations. In doing so, they face complex new regulatory compliance obligations, including those set out in the...more
On Friday 12 July, the European Union published the final text of its long-anticipated AI Act in the Official Journal, marking a key milestone in the implementation of this transformative piece of digital regulation....more
The UK Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”) has published an “Update Paper” outlining its evolving views on AI foundation models as well as its approach to supporting Government consideration on possible regulation. This...more
In December 2023, political agreement was reached by EU policy makers on all substantive aspects of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act. Since then, the close-to-final text of this transformational piece of European...more
On 8 December 2023, after marathon “trilogue” negotiations, the Council of the EU, the European Parliament and European Commission reached a groundbreaking agreement on the forthcoming AI Act. Although the final text is still...more
This week’s UK AI Safety Summit is once again bringing the topic of AI regulation to the forefront of public debate. Amongst the hype and steady stream of news stories, something very important is happening. The AI Safety...more
Further to the UK CMA’s ‘Initial Review’ of AI foundation models back in May, the regulator has now published an ‘Initial Report’ setting out its evolving thinking on the regulation of AI. While there are no immediate...more
With the rapid rise of artificial intelligence, governments and policymakers are racing to release their own proposals on regulating the technology. Major jurisdictions including the EU, US, UK, and China are all at various...more
A cross-practice Global Regulatory & IPMT team hosted a roundtable discussion on the key requirements that industry would like to see incorporated in the UK Government’s approach to developing its AI regulatory framework....more
A few months after the UK Government published a White Paper on its approach to artificial intelligence regulation and invited comments from stakeholders, the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced the UK will host a global...more
AI technology is surging ahead of regulation and this gap has left companies in quandary. Privacy professionals are asked how can we plan for the lawful use of AI when the legal landscape for its adoption is unsettled....more
On 29 March 2023, the UK government published its long-awaited white paper on its intended approach to regulating AI. The proposal seeks to strike a balance between the primary policy objective of creating a ‘pro-innovation’...more
The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has officially released the initial version of its Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework (AI RMF). The AI RMF is one of the first international...more
This article is the second in a series on areas impacted by AI. It focuses on the upcoming implementation of a new Consumer Duty, a higher standard of behaviour for financial services firms directly or indirectly interacting...more
In the discussion paper, the UK financial supervisory authorities have not provided a new legal framework or their intended future approaches for regulating the use of AI and machine learning in financial services. However,...more
On 18 July 2022, the UK government published its cross-sector proposal for regulating artificial intelligence. The proposal outlines what is referred to as a ‘pro-innovation’ regulatory framework which is underpinned by a set...more
At our recent Health Care AI Law and Policy Summit, Hogan Lovells attorneys Dan Whitehead, Bonella Ramsay, Louise Crawford, and Imogen Ireland convened with industry leaders virtually at the Health Care AI Law and Policy...more
On 22 September, the UK government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) announced its long-awaited National AI Strategy. The strategy paper sets out the government’s intended 10-year agenda for making the...more
On 10 September 2021, the UK Government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) published its long-awaited proposals for reform of the country’s data protection laws. The consultation paper includes a...more
On 6 August, Hogan Lovells submitted its response to the European Commission’s public consultation on its proposed AI Regulation (Draft Regulation). Our view is that the Draft Regulation is an ambitious and comprehensive...more
On 18 June 2021, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) issued a joint opinion on the European Union’s proposed AI Regulation, which was announced earlier this year....more
7/15/2021
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Biometric Information ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Protection ,
Data Protection Authority ,
EDPS ,
EU ,
European Commission ,
European Data Protection Board (EDPB) ,
Personal Data ,
Public Consultations
On April 21, 2021, the European Commission published its bold and comprehensive proposals for the regulation of artificial intelligence. With suggested fines of up to 6% of annual global turnover, as well as new rules and...more
5/3/2021
/ Algorithms ,
Anti-Discrimination Policies ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Bias ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Data Management ,
EU ,
Extraterritoriality Rules ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Information Governance ,
Regulatory Agenda