NAIL Research Seminar #22

12. Mai 2025, von Internetredaktion

Professor Christoph Kumpan and Professor Georg Ringe would like to invite you to the NAIL Research Seminar #22 on Monday, 30 June 2025, starting at 18h00 (CEST), with Prof. Stefan Bechtold (ETH Zurich), who will give a presentation titled "AI Regulation Between Competition and Regulatory Capture".

The lecture will be followed by a discussion on the topic. The event will be held in English and will take place in person in Room AT223 at the University of Hamburg (Alsterterrasse 1). No registration is required for this. You can also participate online by registering your participation via the following link: Registration.

Abstract: The commercial launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 and the fast development of large language models have catapulted the regulation of artificial intelligence to the forefront of policy debates. The European Union and other jurisdictions have moved forward by regulating AI and LLMs. One overlooked area is the political economy of these regulatory initiatives—or how countries and companies can behave strategically and use different regulatory levers to protect their interests in the international competition on how to regulate AI. The talk discusses the tradeoffs involved in the design of AI regulatory regimes in a world where (i) governments compete with other governments in using AI regulation, privacy, and intellectual property regimes to promote their national interests; and (ii) companies behave strategically in this competition, sometimes trying to capture the regulatory framework. Against this background, the talk analyzes recent policy initiatives by the European Union and the United States.

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