Across the Pond: AI Regulatory Efforts in the U.S. and the E.U.

Overview of Across the Pond: AI Regulatory Efforts in the U.S. and the E.U.

Governments worldwide are building the regulatory frameworks that will shape AI use and address its risks and ethical concerns. The U.S. and E.U. take somewhat distinct paths: the U.S. emphasizes fostering innovation while the E.U. adopts a more stringent, transparency- and ethics-focused approach. This course, led by AI industry leaders, gives an overview of AI and generative AI, reviews the piecemeal U.S. approach and the E.U.'s proposed Artificial Intelligence Act (which categorizes AI by risk level), and compares the diverging priorities and their implications. Part of the AI Legal and Technological Excellence Series.

What you’ll learn in Across the Pond: AI Regulatory Efforts in the U.S. and the E.U.

• Understand artificial intelligence, generative AI, and the need for AI regulation
• Describe the current state of AI regulation in the United States
• Explain the E.U.'s proposed Artificial Intelligence Act and its risk-based categorization
• Compare and contrast U.S. and E.U. AI regulatory priorities and potential conflicts

Curriculum

1. 1. Across the Pond: ​AI Regulatory Efforts in the U.S. and the E.U.

   Overview of the Course The past few years have been characterized by a sharp rise in the interest and awareness of artificial intelligence, largely engendered by popular generative AI services. As this technology increasingly permeates daily life across a spectrum of existing and developing functions, from voice assistants to text generation to autonomous vehicles, governments worldwide are beginning to establish the regulatory framework that will shape AI use and address its dangers and ethical concerns. The United States and the European Union are two major powers in the process of creating such guardrails for the technology, with somewhat distinct priorities. While the US is focused on fostering innovation, the EU is adopting a more stringent approach, emphasizing AI's ethical implica

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Your instructors

Daniel B. Garrie

Founder, Law & Forensics; Neutral at JAMS; Faculty at Harvard

Law & Forensics LLC · JAMS · Harvard · Rutgers Law School · Journal of Law & Cyber Warfare

Daniel B. Garrie is the founder and executive managing partner of Law & Forensics LLC, a boutique cybersecurity and forensic engineering firm he co-founded in 2008. He serves as a neutral, arbitrator, and forensic special master at JAMS, focusing on cybersecurity, cryptocurrency, and complex technology disputes, and holds faculty appointments at Harvard and Rutgers Law School. A patented software inventor and prolific author, he is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Law & Cyber Warfare and a widely cited authority on computer forensics, eDiscovery, and cyber litigation.

Karen Silverman

CEO and Founder, The Cantellus Group

The Cantellus Group

Karen Silverman is CEO and founder of The Cantellus Group, which advises Fortune 50 companies, startups, consortia, and public agencies on AI strategy, risk management, and readiness for successful adoption. Before founding the firm she spent more than two decades in practice and leadership at Latham & Watkins LLP, working on complex antitrust matters, M&A, governance, and crisis management, and led Latham's partnership with the World Economic Forum on its Board Toolkit for Artificial Intelligence; she retired as a Latham partner in March 2020. She serves on the ABA Task Force on the Law and Artificial Intelligence and on the boards of AIEDU and Not For Sale, and holds a B.A. from Wellesley College and a J.D. from UC Berkeley School of Law. At Legal Cyber Academy, Karen Silverman teaches on navigating AI and its ethical challenges and on AI regulatory efforts in the U.S. and the E.U.

Daniel Dobrygowski

Senior Counsel - Cybersecurity, Sophos; Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia University SIPA

World Economic Forum · Columbia University

Daniel Dobrygowski is Senior Counsel for Cybersecurity at Sophos, where he leads the global cybersecurity legal function and advises on cybersecurity and AI risk and regulation. He has also been an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs since 2022. From 2015 to 2026 he was at the World Economic Forum, latterly as Head of Governance and Trust, where he co-founded the Centre for Cybersecurity and was lead author of reports including Principles for Board Governance of Cyber Risk. He practised previously at WilmerHale and Jones Day, and holds a J.D. from Berkeley Law, an M.P.A. from the Harvard Kennedy School and a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University. At Legal Cyber Academy he teaches on AI regulatory efforts in the U.S. and the E.U.

Saxon Knight

Head of Strategy & Government Partnerships, Reality Defender; Founder, House of Saxons

Reality Defender · House of Saxon

Saxon A.H. Knight is Head of Strategy and Government Partnerships at Reality Defender, a company whose technology identifies AI-generated and manipulated media, and is founder of House of Saxons, an organization dedicated to empowering trafficking survivors through education in essential and marketable business and life skills. Her expertise spans cybersecurity and risk mitigation across traditional and AI sectors, and her earlier government service with the U.S. Department of State, Department of Homeland Security and Department of Energy focused on cyber threat intelligence, counterterrorism and critical infrastructure protection. She previously served as Director of Risk Intelligence for Facebook/Meta, Director of Threat Prevention and Defense for LinkedIn Trust and Safety, a Vice President in Deloitte US's Risk and Financial Advisory practice, and a Cyber Risk Advisory Director for Deloitte UK in London. At Legal Cyber Academy she teaches on AI regulatory efforts in the United States and the European Union.

Amit Elazari

Co-Founder & CEO, OpenPolicy

OpenPolicy

Dr. Amit Elazari is co-founder and chief executive officer of OpenPolicy, described as the world's first tech-enabled policy intelligence and engagement platform, aiming to democratize access to policy for entities of all sizes. She previously served as Head of Global Cybersecurity Policy at Intel Corporation, responsible for shaping and executing Intel's global security policy and government affairs engagement across all Intel technologies, and she is a founding member of Disclose.io, a Delaware nonprofit that provides open, lawyer-reviewed safe-harbor infrastructure for good-faith vulnerability disclosure. She teaches at the University of California, Berkeley School of Information in its Master of Information and Cybersecurity program and serves on the external advisory committee of Berkeley's Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity. She holds a J.S.D. from UC Berkeley School of Law. At Legal Cyber Academy she teaches on AI regulatory efforts in the United States and the European Union.