On May 30th, a seminar on the EU's Artificial Intelligence Act was held at Beijing King&Capital Law Firm. The seminar brought together more than ten people, including experts and scholars from law, cybersecurity, international exchange, information technology and enterprise representatives, to discuss the impact of the AI Bill and the direction of future global governance of artificial intelligence.

Mr. Du Yu, Senior Partner of King&Capital Law Firm, interpreted the AI Bill from the perspectives of corporate roles, AI risk level, AI negative list, etc., and at the same time analyzed the impact of the AI Bill on Chinese enterprises going overseas and put forward suggestions to cope with the potential risks; Associate Professor Liu Chunhong, Director of the Center for Italian Studies of Beijing Language and Culture University, took cross-cultural communication and dissemination as the entry point, shared the EU AI legislative process and the Italian AI legislative process, introduced the Italian AI legislative initiatives, and analyzed the impact of the EU AI legislation on Italy; Lawyer Fei Wang, senior partner of King&Capital Law Firm, analyzed the impact of the AI Bill on Chinese cross-border enterprises and smart manufacturing enterprises, and also compared the changes in personal data protection requirements between the Bill and GDPR, and He also made a detailed interpretation of the representative provisions in the bill and the intellectual property-related norms in the bill, such as the copyright requirements for training data.

Deputy General Manager of the Network Security and Data Security Research and Evaluation Division of China Software Evaluation Center (CSEC), Mr. Tapakuti Li, analyzed the impact of the EU's Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act on China's cross-border and offshore enterprises from a technical perspective, and made suggestions such as strengthening data governance and privacy protection, setting up a compliance team with professional expertise, comprehensively evaluating and optimizing the existing high-risk AI systems, and improving the transparency and interpretability of the AI systems; King&Capital Law Firm lawyer Zhao Tengyuan analyzed the highlights of the legislation of the Artificial Intelligence Act and put forward the suggestions that China's AI legislation should pay attention to balancing the relationship between administrative supervision and technological development, the regulatory measures need to be adapted to the level of risk, and attention should be paid to the protection of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) or the interests of startups, etc.; Two High Lawyers Law Firm lawyer Zhang Yinan analyzed the definition of the Artificial Intelligence Act from the perspective of the definition of general AI, its classification, specification, and the relationship between management institutions and their responsibilities. Mr. Zhang Yinan of Two High Law Firm analyzed the AI Act from the angles of definition, classification, specification, and regulatory institutions and responsibilities, and pointed out the controversies in the regulation of general artificial intelligence; Mr. Wu Chenrui of King&Capital Law Firm analyzed the general scenarios, special scenarios, and exceptions applicable to in-depth forgery technology in the AI Act, and commented on the impact of the ambiguous space in the current regulations on the practice.

Subsequently, the guests launched an interactive discussion on the theme of the event, with guests from Xiaomi, China Construction and other enterprises expressing their views and interacting frequently. The seminar was held at the time when the EU formally approved the Artificial Intelligence Act, which, as the world's first AI regulatory law, puts forward comprehensive and stringent requirements on the development, use, and regulation of AI technology, and has an important impact on global development.

Beijing King&Capital Law Firm continues to cultivate deeply in the field of AI digital competition. In the face of increasingly complex technology legal issues and rapid changes in the digital competition environment, we always maintain a keen insight and forward-looking thinking, and are committed to providing clients with more comprehensive and professional legal services in order to more accurately grasp the legal pulse in the field of digital competition.