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The Oxford Handbook of the Foundations and Regulation of Generative AI

Author: Philipp Hacker; Andreas Engel; Sarah Hammer; Brent Mittelstadt
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198940272

Published In: August 2026
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Generative AI technology holds immense transformative potential, with applications spanning from text generation to image creation and scientific discovery. Yet, its rapid development and adoption have introduced significant legal and ethical concerns, such as potential cybersecurity risks, misinformation, unsustainability, and algorithmic discrimination. The Oxford Handbook of the Foundations and Regulation of Generative AI offers theoretical insights and practical recommendations for ensuring the responsible development and application of this emerging technology.

Edited and written by leading scholars in law, AI ethics, economics, and computer science, this Handbook brings together a global team of experts to examine the foundational principles and regulatory challenges posed by generative AI systems. The Handbook introduces core technical concepts-including explainable AI (XAI), agentic AI safety, and prompting-and discusses pressing legal and ethical concerns such as AI bias, consumer protection, platform and worker rights, data protection, copyright, and liability for AI-generated speech. The volume also considers how generative AI is transforming industries, from business and legal practice to healthcare, finance, and cybersecurity. Finally, it concludes with in-depth analyses of AI regulation in various jurisdictions, including the EU, US, China, Brazil, India, and Australia.

Interdisciplinary in scope and global in coverage, this Handbook is an essential resource for anyone seeking to understand and navigate the evolving landscape of generative AI. It provides an accessible entry point for students, while offering the depth and rigor needed to inform practice, policy, and advanced research.

I. Introduction

1:Foundations and Regulation of Generative AI: An Introduction

Philipp Hacker, Brent Mittelstadt, Sarah Hammer, and Andreas Engel

II. Foundations

2:Generative AI and Foundation Models: A Gentle Technical Introduction

Gerard de Melo, Sanmi Koyejo, and Stephan Mandt

3:Responsible Data Practices and Generative AI

Rumman Chowdhury

4: The Art of Generative AI Prompting

Gerard de Melo

5:XAI for Generative AI

Wojciech Samek

6:The Challenges of Agentic AI Safety

Eleanor Watson

7:Building GenAI Benchmarks: A Case Study in Legal Applications

Neel Guha, Julian Nyarko, Daniel E. Ho, and Christopher Ré

8:Detecting AI-Generated Content: Challenges and Opportunities

Gerard de Melo

9:Ethics at the Frontier of Human-AI Relationships

Henry Shevlin

10:1. Generative AI and the Problem of Existential Risk

Lynette Webb and Daniel Schönberger

III. Regulatory Challenges

11:Regulating Foundation Models and Generative AI

Cary Coglianese and Colton R. Krum

12:Generative AI and the Rule of Law

Roger Brownsword

13:From Principles to Rules: A Regulatory Approach for Frontier AI

Jonas Schuett, Markus Anderljung, Alexis Carlier, Leonie Koessler, and Ben Garfinkel

14:How Risky are Open Frontier Models?

Seb Krier, Harry Law, and Kevin Klyman

15:GAI as a Modality of Interdependencies: Imagining Tech Futures in Majority World Settings

Rachel Adams, Leah Junck, and Fola Adeleke

16:Promoting Transparency in Generative AI: A Focus on Africa

Jerry John Kponyo, Francis Kemausuor, Eric Tutu Tchao, Henry Nunoo Mensah, and Rachel Yayra Adjoe

17:Generative Discrimination: What Happens When Generative AI Exhibits Bias, and What Can Be Done About It, Philipp Hacker, Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius, Brent Mittelstadt, and Sandra Wachter

18:Generative AI and Consumer Protection, Jan Trzaskowski and Marie Jull Sørensen

19: Platform and Worker Rights in the Age of Generative AI, Jeremias Adams-Prassl

20:Generative AI and Content Moderation, Pietro Ortolani

21:ChatGPT Tells Fibs About Me: Are Data Protection and Libel Adequate Tools to Protect Reputation in the LLM Era?, Reuben Binns and Lilian Edwards

22:Liability for AI-Generated Speech, Peter Henderson, Tatsunori Hashimoto, and Mark A. Lemley

23:Regulation of Generative AI Speech: An EU Perspective, Graziana Kastl-Riemann

24:Generative AI and Sustainability, Amy L. Stein

25:Evaluating the Social Impact of Generative AI Systems, Irene Solaiman, Zeerak Talat, and others

26:Generative AI and Copyright, Andreas Engel

27:AI and Patents: The Role of Inventorship, Herbert Zech

IV. Applications

28:Generative AI, Adoption, and the Structure of Tasks, Laurence Ales, Christophe Combemale, and Ramayya Krishnan

29:Harnessing AI for Business Insight: Key Considerations for Deploying LLMs in Summarization Pipelines, Alex P. Miller, Kartik Hosanagar, and Ramayya Krishnan

30:Data, Automation, and Artificial Intelligence: (Generative) AI in Legal Practice, Alexandre Zavaglia Coelho

31:Generative AI in International Arbitration, Elizabeth Chan, Kiran Gore, and Eliza Jiang

32:AI and Health: Exploring the Opportunities, Risks, and Challenges, Kelly Richdale

333:Generative AI in Agriculture for Smallholder Agricultural Advisory in Sub-Saharan Africa, Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende, Ann Lisa Nabiryo, Peter Nabende, Jennifer Winfred Namuyanja, Andrew Katumba, and Derrick Ssekidde

34:Generative AI and Education, Julia Powles

35:Generative AI and Finance, Sarah Hammer

36:Generative AI and Cybersecurity, Thomas Wischmeyer and Michael B. Strecker

V. Global and Regional Considerations

37:Regulating Generative AI in Australia: Challenges of Regulatory Design and Regulator Capacity, Jeannie Marie Paterson

38: Generative AI Regulation in Brazil, Dora Kaufman

39: Generative AI Regulation in the US and Canada, Ignacio Cofone

40: The Regulation of Generative AI in China, Rogier Creemers

41:The Genesis of the EU Foundation Model Regulation: How Brussels has Adjusted the AI Act After the Release of ChatGPT, Kai Zenner

42:Generative AI in India, Debayan Gupta

43:Generative AI Regulation in Singapore, Adrian Ang and Alexander Yap

44:Generative AI Regulation in the UK, Christopher T. Marsden