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Back to the Future: How Data Privacy Laws Can Teach Us What to Expect With AI Regulation

By Ryan Steidl
April 30, 2025

There is a commonly held belief that legal-ethical regulation is unable to keep up with the pace of technology. The belief is so prevalent that it has been given a colloquial term: “the pacing problem.”

Although this term and concept was coined nearly 20 years ago, the recent proliferation of generative artificial intelligence has renewed questions about whether laws can be enacted that will be adequate or relevant for such complex emerging technologies.

It’s a fair question. After all, ChatGPT was publicly released at the end of November 2022, and while many new models and systems have been released there has been comparatively little AI regulation passed at state or federal levels. Even legislation that seemed nearly certain to pass has fallen short, as we saw last month with the veto of HB 2094 by Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA).

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