Governments, companies and less obvious players around the world are fighting over who gets to write the rules for artificial intelligence:

• Welcome to the age of uncertainty, or: the rise of deepfakes. If everything can be faked, how can we know anything is real? (Politico, December 17, 2019)
  

• Europe’s silver bullet in global AI battle: Ethics. EU experts hope ‘trust’ will prove to be the bloc’s competitive edge.
  (Politico, March 17, 2019)
  

• Europe’s AI ethics chief: No rules yet, please. Define ethical principles and let the courts correct problems as they come up, says Pekka Ala-Pietilä.
  (Politico, October 30, 2018)
  
  
• Europe divided over robot ‘personhood.’ In letter to Commission, 156 experts from 14 countries warn against granting self-learning robots 'electronic personalities.'
  (Politico, April 11, 2018)