“European Union lawmakers gave final approval to a landmark law governing artificial intelligence, leapfrogging the United States on the regulation of a critical and disruptive technology.”

According to the CNN article, “E.U. Approves Landmark AI Law, Leapfrogging U.S. to Regulate Critical But Worrying New Technology,” “The first-of-its-kind law is poised to reshape how businesses and organizations in Europe use AI for everything from health care decisions to policing. It imposes blanket bans on some ‘unacceptable’ uses of the technology while enacting stiff guardrails for other applications deemed ‘high-risk.’”