Artifical Intelligence

New rules on the development and deployment of Artificial Intelligence are being enacted worldwide. Many like the EU AI Act are broad in scope, and will apply to covered types of AI (not all AI is caught) used or available in the EU regardless of who has developed or is providing the AI.  
 

 On 2 February 2025, the first rules under the EU AI Act entered into force. These included  AI system definitions, literacy initiatives and the provision of a very limited list of prohibited AI uses posing unacceptable risks.  The rest of the AI Act will be brought in in stages. 

There is sometimes a misunderstanding that their are no rules in place to govern AI in the UK.  This is not the case. The UK does not have a centralized framework like the AI act but instead adopts a more flexible approach based on a set of principles to guide existing Regulators on how to address AI.  This has led to these Regulators creating their own guidelines to address AI risk creating a complex framework for compliance.