Trade Secret? How AI is Changing Trade and How Trade Agreements Address AI

Artificial intelligence is both expanding and altering trade. Moreover, a growing number of digital trade agreements include language to encourage AI. For example, some agreements include provisions encouraging the free flow of data and/ or language requiring that public data when open be provided in a machine readable format. But policymakers are just beginning to figure out how to encourage AI (as example, to incentivize multi- sectoral data sharing). Meanwhile, more than 60 countries have AI strategies and 11 have data strategies. Policymakers could alter comparative advantage in data through various approaches to regulating data or the data giants. This webinar, hosted by the  Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub, will feature two researchers who have recently written on the relationship between AI and trade.