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The AI landscape is rapidly evolving. Around the world, governments and other bodies are developing policies and legislation to protect their citizens and humanity, as a whole, against the harms that may arise. South Africa, however, is being left behind writes Tanya de Villiers-Botha.
This has been a busy year for AI and for AI policy globally. Not only have large language models and other generative AI systems (sometimes called "foundation models") entered into the mainstream, with applications such as ChatGPT and DALL-E, but there has been a lot of focus on regulating AI technologies.
The EU is doing pioneering work on this front with its proposed AI Act, which is currently in draft form and still subject to intense and sometimes fiercely divisive discussion. The aim is to take a risk-based approach to AI systems, with the overall focus on protecting those basic human rights that may be threatened by the development, deployment, and use of AI systems in various spheres.
