G20 Members Back Light-Touch Approach to AI Regulation

The Group of 20 (G20) members have agreed to a set of emerging technology principles that favor flexible, risk-based regulation of artificial intelligence (AI), including relying on existing sector-specific rules rather than creating new requirements. The agreement came out of a two-day G20 Innovation Ministerial in Chapel Hill, N.C., hosted by the Commerce Department and White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). The nations adopted a consensus statement organized around six ar