AI And The Law: Emerging Trends In Enforcement

Deemed the Fourth Industrial Revolution, artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as the newest watershed technological development of the 21st century, as evidenced by its near ubiquity in discussions of everything from how the information economy functions to the way art is made. The rapid development and deployment of AI technologies took society and governments by surprise.

The US government has since taken a variety of wide-ranging aspirational steps, but legislative activity has been absent. Recent actions by federal and state regulators offer insights into the priorities surrounding AI enforcement. Although these priorities, as well as the nature and scale of enforcement, may shift under the new Trump administration, recent enforcement actions demonstrate the tools available for AI enforcement.