Across Asia, the agents have run ahead of the law. Boards are drafting contracts with generative AI, banks are using it to score customers, and courts are already seeing pleadings no lawyer wrote unaided. Yet of the eight jurisdictions covered here (Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam), only Vietnam has enacted a dedicated AI statute. Everywhere else, the questions that matter are being answered through civil codes, tort doctrine, consumer legislation and contract rules written for a world in which the decision-maker could be put on the stand. Who is liable when a model hallucinates? Will a vendor’s liability cap hold? Can a claimant prove causation against a black-box system?
Series I puts ten practical questions to that reality, jurisdiction by jurisdiction: what law applies today, what is in the pipeline, where disputes will land, how liability stretches around developers, deployers and end users, and what happens when boilerplate meets a real loss. It is a working reference for general counsel drafting AI clauses, deal teams pricing AI risk, and litigators preparing the first wave of AI-related claims, written for practitioners who cannot wait for the statute book to catch up.
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