REGULATION
Lula presents Congress with AI bill

The future of AI up for debate during a G20 event in Brasília last year. Photo: Ricardo Stuckert/PR
Brazil’s federal government has moved to settle a growing institutional dispute at the heart of its effort to regulate artificial intelligence, sending Congress a bill that creates a national system to coordinate AI development, oversight and governance while leaving the most sensitive restrictions aside for a separate, more comprehensive proposal still under debate.
The bill, submitted by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva this week, arrives as lawmakers race to finalize Bill 2338, a wide-ranging framework that would classify AI systems by…

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