UNESCO has launched an Open Consultation and encourages stakeholders, including parliamentarians, legal experts, AI governance experts and the public, to review and provide feedback on the different regulatory approaches for AI.
A consultation brief explains and illustrates nine emerging regulatory approaches, and offers issues to consider:
- Principles-Based Approach: Offer stakeholders a set of fundamental propositions (principles) that provide guidance for developing and using AI systems through ethical, responsible, human-centric, and human-rights-abiding processes.
- Standards-Based Approach: Delegate (totally or partially) the state’s
regulatory powers to organizations that produce technical standards that
will guide the interpretation and implementation of mandatory rules. - Agile and Experimentalist Approach: Generate flexible regulatory schemes, such as regulatory sandboxes and other testbeds, that allow organizations to test new business models, methods, infrastructure, and tools under more flexible regulatory conditions and with the oversight and accompaniment of public authorities.
- Facilitating and Enabling Approach: Facilitate and enable an environment that encourages all stakeholders involved in the AI lifecycle to develop and use responsible, ethical, and human rights-compliant AI systems.
- Adapting Existing Laws Approach: Amend sector-specific rules (e.g., health, finance, education, justice) and transversal rules (e.g., criminal codes, public procurement, data protection laws, labor laws) to make incremental improvements to the existing regulatory framework.
- Access to Information and Transparency Mandates Approach: Require the deployment of transparency instruments that enable the public to access basic information about AI systems.
- Risk-Based Approach: Establish obligations and requirements in accordance with an assessment of the risks associated with the deployment and use of certain AI tools in specific contexts.
- Rights-Based Approach: Establish obligations or requirements to protect individuals’ rights and freedoms
- Liability Approach: Assign responsibility and sanctions to problematic use of AI systems.
The policy brief aims to contribute to the ongoing global discussion about whether and how to regulate the development and use of AI systems.
A revised version will be presented at the IPU Assembly in Geneva, 13-17 October 2024, in the context of the finalization of the IPU resolution on “The impact of AI on democracy, human rights and the rule of law”
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The deadline for submission is 19 September 2024
Link to consultation: https://lnkd.in/eDafqCfQ
