Legal Regulation of the Artificial Intelligence Application for Combatting the Spread of COVID-19: Problems and Prospects based on World Experience

Today, humanity has witnessed an extremely complex historical event. The head of the world health organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, stated that the spread of the new coronavirus was of a pandemic nature, which happened for the first time in several decades. "In the days and weeks ahead, we expect to see the number of cases, the number of deaths, and the number of affected countries climb even higher," the organization’s CEO said. Humanity has faced coronavirus infection that has developed into a rare and dangerous phenomenon — a pandemic. The latest threat that the entire planet is fighting against has given each country, without exception, special tasks to find and develop new methods to combat the spread of the virus and effective ways to treat it. New legal norms are necessary for the introduction of innovative technologies — creating conditions for the most effective use of the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) to combat the spread of COVID-19. World experience also shows us the need to use the latest technologies to defeat a new infection. This is the only way the fight can be effective. This paper broadly presents and classifies the world experience in the use of AI to combat coronavirus, as well as analyzes strategies for innovative legal regulation in the context of a pandemic. This is a valuable platform for constructive research of the identified problem in the field of law, and contributes to the creation of reliable legal conditions for the use of artificial intelligence technologies to resolve the situation with coronavirus infection.

artificial intelligence, COVID-19, experimental law, law of science and technology, platform, platform law, global trends, big data, network model, innovative economy, European Union law, integration law

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