Towards legal regulation of artificial intelligence

Abstract

This paper addresses the current state of AI regulation and discusses the feasibility and need for regulation through legally binding instruments, beyond the field of ethics. History shows what can happen if the State withdraws and allows private companies to set their own exclusive regulatory standards. We have a unique opportunity to create laws and principles governing AI on a common basis and with an indispensable public-private partnership that should preferably be international in scope with the leadership of the UN or, failing that, at European level led by EU institutions, as they had already achieved in the areas of privacy and data protection.