While news about any artificial intelligence-related legal development often remained buried among the more pressing news of other major world events in the first quarter of 2022, that is not to say that nothing notable occurred. Indeed, each of the three branches of the U.S. Government took a number of significant steps towards developing more focused AI strategies, legislation, regulations, and principles of governance. As highlighted below in this quarter’s update, Congress, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, the Intelligence directorates, NIST, the FTC, and the EEOC all were active players in early 2022 in matters relating to AI. In addition, the EU continued this quarter in advancing efforts toward a union-wide, general AI policy and regulation, which, if and when ultimately adopted, seems likely to have an influential impact on much of the debate that continues in the U.S. on the need for a national approach. Meanwhile, state and local governments in the U.S. continue to fill some of the perceived gaps left by the continued piecemeal regulatory approach taken to date by the federal government.
Our 1Q22 Artificial Intelligence and Automated Systems Legal Update focuses on these key efforts, and also examines other policy developments within the U.S. and EU that may be of interest to domestic and international companies alike.
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