Will any country pass a law explicitly regulating artificial intelligence during 2023?
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Law = act of legislature.

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I don't know enough about their processes to suggest whether these rules qualify as "law" or not, but China seems interested in regulating AI:

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/11/china-releases-rules-for-generative-ai-like-chatgpt-after-alibaba-launch.html

@NLeseul Seems like regulation more than legislation.

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@NLeseul Fundamentally, China is a communist country operating system that happens to have a highly modern capitalist economy application on running top of that operating system. Being a communist country, laws are historically considered to be instruments of class oppression, and as a result Rule of Law has not ever really functioned as you or I would understand it in the PRC, but rather it's something called, "rule by law," where, "law" (not really law in the western sense of the word), gets handed down from a hierarchy, starting with the CPC and various bodies on downward, it doesn't really go through a similar process to a western-style democracy, but it's also not just an absolute dictatorship. I would say, it's better to just not include China for the purposes of this discussion because it's probably either not what Nostradamnedus originally was intending, or it's just going to lead into a huge discussion about what law is in China. I think the specific wording, "Pass a law," doesn't really apply, since it's not being, "passed." https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1686&context=vjtl ... similar to how my comment on Executive Orders got rejected because that's not a, "passed law," this is not, "passed law," for a different reason.

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Executive Order 13960 on Promoting the Use of Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence in the Federal Government requires that certain federal agencies adhere to nine principles when designing, developing, acquiring, or using AI for purposes other than national security or defense.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/ai-bill-of-rights/safe-and-effective-systems-3/

An executive order has the effect of law. It is not legislation, but it is law which has been passed by executive order. This market should resolve as YES based upon that definition.

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@PatrickDelaney no law is something that is voted on by some parliamentary type body. Except maybe in monarchy

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@PriitKallas The United States is not a parliamentary system.

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@PatrickDelaney still president does not make laws "The President can issue executive orders, which direct executive officers or clarify and further existing laws."

@PriitKallas I agree.

BBC:

Italy has become the first Western country to block advanced chatbot ChatGPT.

The Italian data-protection authority said there were privacy concerns relating to the model, which was created by US start-up OpenAI and is backed by Microsoft.

I assume this doesn't count since it's an action being taken under existing privacy regulations, but it seems relevant here.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nishatalagala/2022/06/29/the-ai-act-three-things-to-know-about-ai-regulation-worldwide/?sh=4dbf48ca379f

According to this some countries have done it in 2022.

The difficulty is if it's a "framework" as those are described, vs a law "regulating" it.

Or would Singapore's and Canada's laws have counted, if they had come out in 2023?

@StrayClimb Yes, I think they would have.