Milk is more regulated than AI, Microsoft’s Brad Smith tells the BBC
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When a major platform executive is publicly calling for a legal duty to notify victims of rogue AI breaches, they’re pre-writing the compliance playbook regulators will eventually copy. CISOs and GCs should assume disclosure and traceability obligations for AI incidents are coming and start logging and incident-classifying AI behavior now, not after the first enforcement action.
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