Japan adopts a soft law approach to AI governance but lawmakers advance proposal for a hard law approach to generative AI foundation models.
Laws/Regulations directly regulating AI (“AI Regulations”)
Japan currently...more
5/24/2024
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Competition ,
Data Privacy ,
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Risk Management ,
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AI has surpassed human performance in many areas once thought to be too complex for any computer to master. As AI evolves it will continue to surpass human abilities, and a central question will be what degree of autonomy we...more
China has recently promulgated a somewhat short, but comprehensive, regulation on generative Artificial Intelligence ("AI") which took effect on August 15, 2023. The overarching goals are to protect citizens from potential...more
Even as the "godfathers" of generative AI (Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun) disagree about the potential threat to humanity, policymakers, researchers and leading tech executives are calling for government...more
9/5/2023
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China ,
Corporate Governance ,
EU ,
Innovation ,
Japan ,
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Regulatory Reform ,
Technology Sector ,
UK
White & Case Tokyo office's Webinar series is bringing together the Firm's partners and industry experts to explore how digital transformation (or DX) and green energy transformation (or GX) are likely to affect strategic...more
5/24/2022
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Asia ,
Blockchain ,
Climate Action Plan ,
Climate Change ,
Energy Projects ,
Energy Sector ,
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In Tokyo, White & Case gathers leading thinkers on international business and trade policy from around the globe to explore what evolving US policy means for other nations—and to propose effective responses -
In a day marked...more
7/24/2019
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Cybersecurity ,
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Global Economy ,
Japan ,
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