Generative AI: Emerging Trends and Future Directions in Legislation and Applications
This special issue belongs to the section "Artificial Intelligence".
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is rapidly transforming sectors such as healthcare, education, finance, law, industry, media and public administration. Advances in large language models, multimodal AI and autonomous agents are enabling new capabilities in content generation, decision support and automation while simultaneously raising important legal, ethical and regulatory challenges.
This Special Issue aims to bring together research on the technological advances and legislative landscape of generative AI, with particular emphasis on real-world applications. We welcome contributions addressing novel AI models, explainability, robustness, trustworthy AI and application-driven research, alongside studies on AI legislation, governance, regulatory compliance, intellectual property, privacy and the implications of emerging legal frameworks, including the European AI Act. Interdisciplinary contributions bridging computer science, law, public policy and AI applications are especially encouraged. This Special Issue seeks to promote responsible innovation by exploring how technological advances in generative AI can be aligned with evolving legal, ethical and regulatory requirements to enable trustworthy and human-centered AI systems.
Dr. Asimina Dimara
Prof. Dr. Christos-Nikolaos Anagnostopoulos
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)
- large language models (LLMs)
- AI legislation
- European AI act
- AI governance
- AI regulation
- AI compliance
- Trustworthy AI
- explainable AI (XAI)
- multimodal AI
- real-world AI applications
- intellectual property
- AI ethics
- human–AI collaboration
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Information - ISSN 2078-2489