Filip Lubinski

Did the European Union get the pacing of the law right with the Artificial Intelligence Act? This short essay, written at the peak of interest in the world’s first comprehensive horizontal legal framework for AI, tries to answer that question. The methodology uses the Law & Technology concept of the “pacing problem,” an issue arising when a fast-developing technology impacts society too quickly for governments to protect people through laws and regulations, to analyze the timing of legislative measures undertaken by the EU. The essay looks for insights from the history of international law and briefly presents the pacing problem that emerged in the early 20th century, an era of the first airplane flights.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5188418