A recently redesigned and updated Global Trends benchmark compared if and how artificial intelligence (AI) is being regulated across 14 jurisdictions around the world.

Scope

• Existence of AI laws or other binding frameworks addressing specified aspects of AI, as opposed to jurisdictions only relying on voluntary frameworks.
• What are the mandatory rules applicable to AI systems, where they exist. That includes prohibited practices, requirements for high-risk use cases, and obligations for generative AI models.
• Enforcement mechanisms, including enforcement bodies, applicable penalties, and significant enforcement actions already taken.
• AI industrial policy, including national strategies, sovereign AI ambitions and public funding allocations.

The covered jurisdictions in the benchmark are: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the EU, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa, Taiwan, the UK and the US.

In a nutshell

Amongst its main findings, this benchmark showed that there are diverse approaches worldwide in regulating AI:

• four jurisdictions adopted or proposed comprehensive AI legislation (e.g. the EU);
• five others apply binding AI-related obligations through amendments to existing laws or by adopting secondary legislation to varying degrees, with China being the most extensive example;
• four jurisdictions rely solely on voluntary schemes with no binding AI-specific rules (e.g. Singapore); and
• the US has no comprehensive federal AI regulation and actively discourages state-level rules. However, several individual US states have begun adopting their own AI laws.

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See also our detailed European benchmark on the status of national AI laws.