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What do you want from an AI framework?

In designing an advocacy strategy for AI regulation, a key step is to choose your policy priorities: to decide what features your desired regulation or legal framework should have.


This process can draw on the emerging best-practice frameworks on AI governance, such as the UNESCO Recommendation[1], and include tailored aspects for your unique local context.

These priorities can inform a test or benchmark against which any future proposed regulation can be measured.

As an exercise, use the table below to map out the key features you want in any future AI regulation. Feel free to draw on some of the trends and themes outlined in Part 2 of this toolkit or incorporate your own.

What key features do we want?What mechanism could enable this?Who should enforce this?
e.g. AI technologies must be subject to rights-based impact assessments before being used.e.g., Regulation must set guiding standards and procedures for conducting impact assessments.e.g. Regulation should establish an independent AI Watchdog.
   
   
What key features do we want?What mechanism could enable this?Who should enforce this?
e.g. AI technologies must be subject to rights-based impact assessments before being used.e.g., Regulation must set guiding standards and procedures for conducting impact assessments.e.g. Regulation should establish an independent AI Watchdog.
   
   

Once you have drawn together a vision of the AI governance framework you want, a key question for the advocacy strategy:

Are there any opportunities to pursue a ‘quick win’ on AI regulation through sectoral rules or issue-specific laws? If not, what steps do you need to take to move towards comprehensive regulation?


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Silhouettes of demonstrators are seen as they march around the Hungarian parliament to protest against Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and the latest anti-LGBTQ law in Budapest, Hungary, June 14, 2021. REUTERS/Marton Monus TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
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