AI Regulation without a Map

Where Are We Going and Who is In Charge?

Speakers

Annabel Tresise Senior Counsel Bartko Pavia	Ben Softness Partner King & Spalding

Topics

• The federal preemption push — From the December 2025 "One Rule" Executive Order (EO 14365) through the March 2026 National Policy Framework to the June 2026 national-security order, we will discuss the administration’s pursuit of a unified federal approach
• The state-level landscape — California's Transparency in Frontier AI Act and Texas's Responsible AI Governance Act both took effect January 1, 2026, while the Colorado AI Act was pushed to Jan 1, 2027. We'll map the live compliance obligations, and the federalism conflict The EU AI Act and the Digital Omnibus — The May 2026 provisional agreement deferred high-risk obligations (Annex III to December 2027, Annex I to August 2028) while keeping the August 2026 milestone and adding new Article 5 prohibitions on nudifiers and AI generated CSAM effective December 2026
• The global regulatory divergence — How the US light-touch posture, the EU's risk-based framework, and other major regimes (China, UK) are pulling in different directions, and what that means for multinational clients trying to build coherent compliance programs
• The liability and litigation frontier — Developer liability for third-party misuse, the First Amendment dimensions of compelled disclosure and "truthful output" mandates, algorithmic discrimination claims, and where the early enforcement actions are likely to land

Section Chair
Ben Softness, King & Spalding 

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