Introduction and overview -- Primary resources: Federal statutes; Federal regulations; Federal agencies; Federal case law; State laws/regulations; State case law; International law/Foreign law/Other countries -- Secondary resources: American Law Reports; Legal encyclopedias; Legal research databases/Publishers; Congressional Research Services; Organizations, blogs & websites; Legal blogs, law firms & legal sites; Law school courses/University databases; Legal publications, law journals & books; News organizations, magazines & other publications.
Summary:
This legal research guide undertakes to highlight pending and current federal legislation, including federal statutes that first dealt with AI, such as the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019, which incorporated the first definition of AI in a federal statute; and the National Artificial Intelligence Act of 2020, part of the William M. Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2021. Moreover, the numerous federal agencies, bureaus, departments, and organizations of the Executive Branch of government which deal with AI are detailed along with any federal case law. Of course, state laws and regulations as well as international law are detailed, particularly the ever-increasing actions by the European Union to regulate AI, especially as it concerns data privacy issues of individuals. Apart from legislative analysis regarding AI, the researcher must bear in mind the historical context of AI, or intelligent machines, dating back to at least the 1940s with the British mathematician and logician Alan M. Turing, OBE and his Turing machine considered a basic computer, as well as the speculative fiction author and biochemist Isaac Asimov and his book I, Robot, published in 1950. However, the actual term "artificial intelligence" historically "was coined at the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence" by being "proposed in 1955" and then held the following year." -- Publisher.
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