On 22 March 2024, the Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO) and Rajah & Tann’s Japan Desk co-organised a seminar titled “Legal and Regulatory Issues in AI”. At the seminar, the speakers talked about the artificial intelligence (“AI”) regulatory framework and the different kinds of legal structures relating to AI in Canada, the European Union and Indonesia vis-à-vis the approaches taken in Singapore and the United States. They also discussed cybersecurity, data privacy, intellectual property and ethics issues in relation to AI.
The speakers comprised Rajesh Sreenivasan, Head of the Technology, Media & Telecommunications Practice, Partner Glen Chiang and Senior Associate Victoria Tan from the same Practice, and Shuhei Otsuka, Head of the Japan Business Unit of Rajah & Tann Asia.