Regulating Artificial Intelligence: The Need to Safeguard the Future

Abstract

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative force, reshaping industries, education,
societies, and all facets of human endeavours. It has transcended its once-fictional status to become a
driving force, simplifying human efforts done through erstwhile traditional methods, and making various
mechanisms relied upon across the globe more precise and efficient. All aspects of human labour now
have computers or computer-controlled machines performing tasks that usually are the exclusive preserve
of human beings and run by human intelligence. However, with great power comes great responsibility.
As artificial intelligence simplifies human tasks, like every technological invention, several issues emerge,
creating risks and disadvantages that sometimes blur the beauty of this life-enhancing technological
system.This article explores the importance and the beauty of the incursion of Artificial Intelligence into
everyday human effort and highlights some attendant challenges to the reliance on artificial intelligence.
The article also points out several attendant challenges that emerge with this novel incursion,
acknowledges the existing legal void created by the absence of a legal framework to rein in the excess and
fallout of the reliance on Artificial Intelligence, and explores the imperative for regulating AI through the
law to ensure ethical development, protection of individuals who the technology seeks to assist, and foster
further innovations. This article calls for the formation of an adaptive global legal framework created
from the collaboration of critical stakeholders to address the growing ethical implications derived from
the reliance on Artificial intelligence.