Who actually governs AI, how binding law sits alongside voluntary frameworks and company self governance, and what a decision to release model weights changes about who holds responsibility.
A team is told that no statute governing AI has yet come into force in their market, and takes this to mean their recruitment screening tool is unregulated for now. What is the correct position?
AThey may proceed without a compliance review, since the obligation arrives when the legislation does.
BThey should adopt a voluntary framework, which stands in for the missing legal obligation until one exists.
CEmployment law, rules on automated decisions and whatever sector duties they already carry all apply regardless, so the absence of a statute with AI in its title is not the absence of regulation.
DThey should apply the strictest AI law from any market they might one day enter, since regulators treat foreign rules as persuasive.