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LONDON: European Union lawmakers gave final approval to the 27-nation bloc's artificial intelligence law Wednesday, putting the world-leading rules on track to take effect later this year...
Lawmakers in the European Parliament voted overwhelmingly in favor of the Artificial Intelligence Act, five years after regulations were first proposed..
The AI Act is expected to act as a global signpost for other governments grappling with how to regulate the fast-developing technology...
"The AI Act has nudged the future of AI in a human-centric direction, in a direction where humans are in control of the technology and where it - the technology - helps us leverage new discoveries, economic growth, societal progress and unlock human potential," Dragos Tudorache, a Romanian lawmaker who was a co-leader of the Parliament negotiations on the draft law, said before the vote...
Chinese President Xi Jinping has proposed his Global AI Governance Initiative for fair and safe use of AI, and authorities have issued " interim measures " for managing generative AI, which applies to text, pictures, audio, video and other content generated for people inside China..
