INTRODUCTION
On 23 April 2024, the Italian Council of Ministers approved a
bill on Artificial Intelligence. The official copy of the bill
presented to the Senate on 20 May 2024 has been published on the
Senate website.1 The bill – with only 26
articles – covers various areas of interest, such as the
allocation of public funds for investments in the AI sector, the
use of AI in public administration, healthcare, the judiciary and
white-collar professions, data protection and copyright. The bill
will have to be debated and approved by the Italian Parliament,
which may make changes to the text, meaning that it is not yet
final.
THE BILL AT A GLANCE
The bill covers a wide range of areas and is mainly aimed at
anticipating the entry into force in Italy of some provisions of
the European AI Act. In fact, the bill entrusts the government with
the implementation of the AI law and borrows some principles from
it, as well as the definition of artificial intelligence
