Japan adopts a soft law approach to AI governance but lawmakers advance proposal for a hard law approach to generative AI foundation models.
Laws/Regulations directly regulating AI (“AI Regulations”)
Japan currently...more
5/24/2024
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Competition ,
Data Privacy ,
Japan ,
Machine Learning ,
Privacy Laws ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Risk Management ,
Technology Sector
Fake news websites have appeared online that use chatbots to post hundreds of articles every day. The aim of many of these sites is to become a "content farm" – meaning low quality websites pumping out AI-generated articles...more
China has recently promulgated a somewhat short, but comprehensive, regulation on generative Artificial Intelligence ("AI") which took effect on August 15, 2023. The overarching goals are to protect citizens from potential...more
Even as the "godfathers" of generative AI (Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun) disagree about the potential threat to humanity, policymakers, researchers and leading tech executives are calling for government...more
9/5/2023
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China ,
Corporate Governance ,
EU ,
Innovation ,
Japan ,
New Legislation ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Technology Sector ,
UK
White & Case Tokyo office's Webinar series is bringing together the Firm's partners and industry experts to explore how digital transformation (or DX) and green energy transformation (or GX) are likely to affect strategic...more
5/24/2022
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Asia ,
Blockchain ,
Climate Action Plan ,
Climate Change ,
Energy Projects ,
Energy Sector ,
Green Energy ,
Japan ,
METI ,
Renewable Energy ,
Supply Chain ,
Technology Sector
Enterprises around the world are rapidly incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) into existing and new products and processes. This effort is not just to improve such offerings and services, but to achieve a qualitatively...more
8/25/2020
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Board of Directors ,
Compliance ,
Emerging Technologies ,
EU ,
European Commission ,
Innovative Technology ,
Japan ,
Machine Learning ,
METI ,
Popular ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Robotics ,
White Papers
How has President Trump's "America First" philosophy affected US patent policy? White & Case partners discussed what an evolving US patent policy will mean for other nations, and to propose effective responses....more
7/26/2019
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Claim Amendments ,
Claim Construction ,
Diagnostic Method ,
International Summits ,
Japan ,
Life Sciences ,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board ,
Patent Trolls ,
Patent-Eligible Subject Matter ,
Patents ,
Post-Grant Review ,
Presidential Appointments ,
Treatment Method Patents ,
Trump Administration ,
United States ,
USPTO