Legal Policy
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Unanimous support for EU's Artificial Intelligence Bill: a major step towards legislating AI regulation
Feb. 3 (Xinhua) -- Representatives of the European Union's 27 countries voted unanimously in favor of the text of the Artificial Intelligence Bill on Feb. 2, marking an important step in the EU's efforts to legislate and regulate artificial intelligence, Xinhua reported. The adoption of this bill will set clear standards and guidelines for the development and application of AI within the EU and add...
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Meta's Chief AI Scientist on AI legislation: too early to focus on product level
In today's ever-changing technology, artificial intelligence (AI), as a strategic technology leading the future, is attracting global attention for its development and application. However, with the continuous breakthroughs in AI technology, the risks and challenges it brings are also becoming more and more prominent. At the recent Davos Forum, the potential and risks of generative AI became a hot topic...
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Domestic AI copyright case: AI-generated images enjoy certain copyrights
The Beijing Internet Court recently concluded a case on the copyright of AI-generated images, clarifying the attributes of AI-generated images as "works" and the identity of users as "creators". This is China's first copyright case on AI "text-generated images". In this case, the plaintiff used the AI tool Stable Diffusion to generate...
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UK Ruling Declares AIs Not Allowed to Be Listed as "Inventors" in Patent Applications
The UK Supreme Court ruled on December 20 that artificial intelligence (AI) cannot be listed as an "inventor" in a patent application. The ruling was based on two patent applications filed by U.S. technologist Stephen Sailer, in which the inventor of the applications was not Sailer himself, but an AI called DABUS...
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MIIT Saidi Research Institute: this year China's generative artificial intelligence enterprise adoption rate reached 15%
According to CCTV News, the Saidi Research Institute of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently released a report on the development of generative artificial intelligence in China. The report states that the market size of China's generative AI is expected to exceed 10 trillion yuan this year, and its enterprise adoption rate has already reached 15%. The report further shows that generative AI in...
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Domestic AI-generated images copyright infringement first trial: AI-generated images were recognized as works and found to be infringing
On August 24th of this year, a copyright case involving "AI Wen Shengtu" was publicly heard in Beijing Internet Court. Recently, the first-instance judgment of the case has been released, the court ruled that the plaintiff enjoys the copyright of the picture in question, and the defendant's behavior constitutes infringement, and should bear the corresponding legal responsibility. This case has become a domestic AI-generated...
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UK Announces AI Regulatory Principles, Emphasizing Developer Responsibility and Transparency
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the UK's antitrust regulator, recently announced new standards for managing artificial intelligence (AI) models to promote the healthy development of the technology. The new standards cover accountability, access and transparency to ensure that AI models are developed and utilized in a way that is consistent with competition and consumer...
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MIIT launches four future industries to unveil the list of marshal work, general artificial intelligence into the focus of the
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) recently issued an important notice officially launching the unveiling of a list of future industrial innovation tasks for 2023. The main targets of this work are the four key areas of meta-universe, humanoid robotics, brain-computer interface and general artificial intelligence. Among these four key areas, General Artificial Intelligence has become an industrial...
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Beijing's First 5 AI Big Model Products Passed the Record and Will Be Opened to the Public Starting Today
Recently, according to a number of informed sources, Beijing's first 5 big model products have passed the "Interim Measures for the Management of Generative Artificial Intelligence Services" for the record, and will be open to the public on August 31st. These include Baidu's Wenxin Yiyan ("Baidu's late-night announcement: Wenxin Yiyan is officially open to the...