Rachel Derbyshire

In this blog, Rachel Derbyshire, Senior Interaction Designer at Opencast, explores the increasingly complex global landscape of AI regulation in 2026. As governments accelerate efforts to govern artificial intelligence, organisations are facing a fragmented and often challenging environment to navigate. From the EU’s rigorous, risk-based framework to China’s highly targeted regulatory controls and the UK’s flexible, pro-innovation approach, the rules shaping AI are evolving rapidly, and not always in alignment. This blog unpacks the key differences between these approaches and what they mean for businesses striving to remain compliant, competitive, and forward-thinking in a shifting regulatory world.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has made incredible progress simulating human intelligence for complex reasoning and problem solving. But thinking like a human is also about emotions - and that's where it gets tricky for AI. Emotions bring together brain, body and memories. Can AI ever have emotional intelligence?