The United Kingdom has an ambition to turn into the world’s chief in Artificial Intelligence (AI) expertise and coverage and AI is more and more being adopted throughout all kinds of sectors together with monetary companies, healthcare and quite a few others. In 2021 alone, £29.4 billion of funding flowed into UK tech, in comparison with £11.5 billion in 2020. The UK now has 1.64 million digital expertise jobs and the mixed worth of UK tech firms based since 2000 is now £540 billion. Against this thrilling backdrop, we’re delighted to have contributed to Global Legal Insights – AI, Machine Learning & Big Data’s Chapter on the United Kingdom for the third 12 months in a row. The chapter gives a straightforward to learn, centered replace on the important thing regulatory and sectoral developments in AI within the UK.
In the chapter, we talk about the present state of AI within the UK, together with the primary statutory definition of AI, alongside the Government’s assist and the present regulatory panorama earlier than discussing AI within the context of particular sectors, resembling mental property. Notably on this 12 months’s version, we have now mentioned the Government’s lately printed National AI Strategy, which units out how the Government will search to utilise and implement AI over the subsequent decade in each the general public and personal sectors. The Government have constructed the Strategy round 3 pillars centred on the important thing drivers of advances in AI, AI changing into mainstream and the necessity for regulatory/governance programs to adapt as AI develops. Under every pillar the Government has designated brief, medium and long run actions which they’re now working by way of. There have been different notable developments resembling on mental property and AI, together with the proposed new sui generis proper for data. Reasons given for the brand new proper embrace the brand new significance data has assumed as a important part in AI and the encouragement of the event of latest and helpful lessons of data (amongst others). The UK’s response to the WIPO session proposing the fitting was combined, finally concluding that it didn’t advocate the creation of latest data IP rights. A current UK session on AI and IP didn’t point out the brand new proper, suggesting that the proposal might not finally be taken forwards.
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Chapter first printed in GLI – AI, Machine Learning & Big Data 2022.
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