Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation presented its regulatory roadmap for artificial intelligence (AI) that seeks to assist local businesses in preparing to adopt a law similar to the AI Act of the European Union.
According to the roadmap’s announcement, it is founded on a bottom-up approach that proposes moving from less to more, and it will provide businesses with tools to prepare for future requirements before the adoption of laws.
In the next two to three years, the road map establishes a preliminary time frame for businesses to adapt to prospective new laws. Oleksandr Borniakov, Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation, explains:
“We plan to create a culture of business self-regulation in several ways. In particular, by signing voluntary codes of conduct that will testify to companies’ ethical use of AI by companies. Another tool is a White Paper that will familiarise businesses with the approach, timing, and stages of regulatory implementation.”
According to the roadmap, a draft of the Ukrainian AI legislation is expected in 2024, but only after the EU’s AI Act allows the national law to consider it.
The European Parliament adopted the EU AI Act in June. Once enacted, the act would prohibit certain AI services and products while restricting or limiting others.
Biometric surveillance, social scoring systems, predictive policing, so-called “emotion recognition,” and untargeted facial recognition systems are among the technologies outright prohibited.
If their outputs were designated as AI-generated, generative AI models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard would be permitted to operate.
