AI Governance

Abstract

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a salient topic, as AI-powered technologies gain space in the most varied aspects of our lives. The diffusion of such technologies has been accompanied by the emergence of complex frameworks for AI governance, involving public and private actors from all around the world. This entry illustrates how these frameworks give rise to questions of extraterritoriality. Some of these questions pertain to the reach of national-level legal instruments relating to AI, while others stem from indirect extraterritorial effects to which the actors involved in AI governance are subject or even from the cross-border character of the technologies in question. After drawing a picture of those sources, the entry sketches how AI-related questions might be approached in the broader studies of extraterritoriality.

Keywords: private governance, human rights, multi-level governance, artificial intelligence, Brussels Effect, regulation by design