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In April 2021 the European Commission put forward its proposal for an Artificial Intelligence Act, submitted by Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton. It opened a negotiation in which the Council of the EU adopted its own position in December 2022.
On 7 October 2019 the US Commerce Department added 28 Chinese organisations, including facial-recognition and AI firms such as Hikvision, Dahua, iFlytek, Megvii and SenseTime, to its Entity List, restricting their ability to buy US products.
On 7 June 2018 Google published a set of seven objectives to guide its AI research and products, together with four kinds of application it said it would not pursue.
A European Commission communication adopted on 25 April 2018 that set out three strands of EU policy on artificial intelligence — industrial capacity, preparing people for economic change, and an ethical and legal framework — alongside an investment target of at least EUR 20 billion.
On 18 May 2016, four Chinese government bodies issued a three-year action plan for "Internet Plus" artificial intelligence, setting targets for 2018, naming priority technologies and products, and putting a figure on the market it aimed at.
On 10 February 2004 the W3C approved RDF and OWL as Recommendations, making the two Semantic Web specifications official Web standards for machine-readable data.
In the early 1970s DARPA sharply cut back support for undirected academic AI research and redirected money toward mission-oriented military projects. Together with the Lighthill report, the cuts are counted among the episodes that led into the first AI winter.
In 1973 the UK Science Research Council published Sir James Lighthill's survey of AI, which sharply criticised basic research in robotics and language processing and caused a long loss of confidence in the field.
The 1966 report of the Automatic Language Processing Advisory Committee, a seven-scientist panel led by John R. Pierce, judged machine translation slower, costlier and less accurate than human translation, and was followed by a sharp cut in US funding.
