Although the European Union was the first trade bloc to approve comprehensive artificial intelligence (AI) regulation, China became the first country to propose draft regulations for generative AI in April 2023. China’s draft regulations target services that generate text, images, video, code and other media.
If finalized and approved, the draft Measures for the Management of Generative Artificial Intelligence Services would impose strict requirements regarding the data used to train algorithms and make companies that provide generative AI services to the public, responsible for the outputs of their systems. The draft regulations do not cover governmental use of AI.
Rogier Creemers, a professor at Leiden University, will discuss the draft regulations and the public response to them as well as the implications for data governance.
The study group is co-organized by the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford; the UK Trade Policy Observatory, Sussex University; and Chatham House, all based in the United Kingdom; the Centre for International Governance Innovation in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada; and the Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub at George Washington University in Washington, DC.
