Navigating Global AI Regulation: A Multi-Jurisdictional Retrieval-Augmented Generation System

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Auteurs principaux: Ford, Courtney, Rane, Ojas, Leavy, Susan
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author Ford, Courtney
Rane, Ojas
Leavy, Susan
author_facet Ford, Courtney
Rane, Ojas
Leavy, Susan
contents Navigating AI regulation across jurisdictions is increasingly difficult for policymakers, legal professionals, and researchers. To address this, we present a multi-jurisdictional Retrieval-Augmented Generation system for global AI regulation. Our corpus includes 242 documents across 68 jurisdictions, ranging from formal legislation like the EU AI Act to unstructured policy documents such as national AI strategies. The system makes three technical contributions: type-specific chunking that preserve legal structure across heterogenous documents; conditional retrieval routing with entity detection and metadata for legal citations; and priority-based re-ranking to boost enacted legislation over policy and secondary sources. Evaluation of 50 queries reveals strong performance across both single-entity and multi-jurisdictional questions, achieving 0.87 average faithfulness and 0.84 average answer relevancy. Single-entity queries achieve 0.86 average faithfulness and 0.92 average answer relevancy, while multi-jurisdictional comparison queries achieve 0.88 average faithfulness and 0.75 average answer relevancy. These findings highlight the effectiveness of domain-specific retrieval strategies for navigating complex, heterogenous regulatory corpora.
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spellingShingle Navigating Global AI Regulation: A Multi-Jurisdictional Retrieval-Augmented Generation System
Ford, Courtney
Rane, Ojas
Leavy, Susan
Computation and Language
Navigating AI regulation across jurisdictions is increasingly difficult for policymakers, legal professionals, and researchers. To address this, we present a multi-jurisdictional Retrieval-Augmented Generation system for global AI regulation. Our corpus includes 242 documents across 68 jurisdictions, ranging from formal legislation like the EU AI Act to unstructured policy documents such as national AI strategies. The system makes three technical contributions: type-specific chunking that preserve legal structure across heterogenous documents; conditional retrieval routing with entity detection and metadata for legal citations; and priority-based re-ranking to boost enacted legislation over policy and secondary sources. Evaluation of 50 queries reveals strong performance across both single-entity and multi-jurisdictional questions, achieving 0.87 average faithfulness and 0.84 average answer relevancy. Single-entity queries achieve 0.86 average faithfulness and 0.92 average answer relevancy, while multi-jurisdictional comparison queries achieve 0.88 average faithfulness and 0.75 average answer relevancy. These findings highlight the effectiveness of domain-specific retrieval strategies for navigating complex, heterogenous regulatory corpora.
title Navigating Global AI Regulation: A Multi-Jurisdictional Retrieval-Augmented Generation System
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.25448