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Selim Akal is a Legal Researcher at Holistic AI. His research focuses on legal and policy developments on AI regulation with a particular interest in the EU AI Act. Before joining Holistic AI, Selim was a legal practitioner as an attorney at law, serving institutional clients in IT-related matters and disputes. He holds an LL.B. from Bilkent University and an LL.M. from Ankara University, where he currently pursues a PhD in private law.
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This blog provides an overview of the implications of the EU AI Act on the future of AI-driven financial services.
On 29 September 2024, California’s Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed the Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Models Act (“SB1047”).
In the EU, the use and processing of personal data is primarily governed by the GDPR but the AI Act also has data governance provisions, meaning the two legislative frameworks will interact.
On 5 September 2024, the Council of Europe’s (CoE) Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy, and the Rule of Law, the first binding international legal instrument addressing AI Governance, opened for signature at the Conference of Ministers of Justice in Vilnius, Lithuania.
The EU AI Act introduces regulatory sandboxes as controlled environments that allow the developers of AI systems to innovatively experiment with their AI systems before making them available on the EU market