Digital innovation creates challenges for technical regulation
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Published: 16 Feb 2023
Digital goods that make use of AI technology and/or which are subject to cyber vulnerabilities increase regulatory complexity, according to a new report.
In this report, the National Board of Trade Sweden highlights the challenges that digital innovation creates for technical regulation, and questions whether artificial intelligence and cyber vulnerabilities are changing the way industrial goods, such as some smartphones, medical devices, and vehicles with embedded digital technologies, are regulated.
– Current technical regulation is based on standardised product requirements and is not designed for products with embedded digital technologies where the product’s properties may change throughout the products’ life cycle, as is the case with some medical devices, smartphones, and vehicles with embedded digital technologies, says Heidi Lund, one of the authors.
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