Tai: Digital trade rethink requires reckoning with AI, data use

International talks on digital trade call for careful consideration of how new rules could impact workers, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said on Monday, citing artificial intelligence companies that build products using others’ intellectual work as a particular concern in the digital economy. Tai spoke about the administration’s approach to digital trade during a webinar hosted by the Centre for Economic Policy Research, a European think tank. Pushing back on claims by some critics that the Office of the U.S...