The Global Legal Post today launches the third edition of its comparative guide to artificial intelligence law, examining how regulators and courts around the world are responding to the rapid development of AI.
The Artificial Intelligence guide is edited by London-based CMS partner John Buyers and Dean Harvey, who is based in Ashurst Perkins Coie's Dallas office.
It brings together specialists from 20 jurisdictions, covering issues including agentic AI, intellectual property, data protection, cybersecurity, competition law, product liability and emerging AI regulation.
The guide also includes a series of market insight chapters exploring developing areas of AI law and regulation.
Writing in their introduction, the editors highlight agentic AI – AI capable of taking actions rather than simply responding to prompts – as one of the most significant developments since the previous edition was published in July 2024.
“Agentic AI opens new horizons in terms of AI capability, but with that inevitably comes execution risk,” they write, noting that while the principles of human agency law have developed over hundreds of years, no equivalent yet exists for the actions of AI agents.
Watch John Buyers and Dean Harvey introduce the guide
The guide also charts diverging regulatory approaches as governments seek to balance AI oversight with innovation and competitiveness, including developments in the EU, US and UK, as well as growing concerns over sovereign AI capabilities and dependence on US-led hyperscalers.
Meanwhile, longstanding legal questions remain unresolved, including the dispute between intellectual property rights holders and AI developers over the use of copyright-protected material in AI training.
Click here to read the guide online. The PDF edition is available to download here, and the print edition is available to buy here.
The guide’s authors will assemble for an Artificial Intelligence Roundtable at Bird & Bird’s Copenhagen office on 20 October.
The Artificial Intelligence comparative guide is part of the Law Over Borders series, which covers a range of practice areas including arbitration, corporate tax and tax controversy, cryptoassets, data protection, ESG and restructuring and insolvency.
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