Welcome to AI Law. Decoded.
There was a day, not so long ago, when AI regulation wasn’t your problem.
What a sweet memory.
It started so subtly. Maybe your boss forwarded you an article about the EU AI Act. Maybe a client asked a question you couldn't fully answer. Maybe you're the in-house lawyer whose portfolio just doubled somehow. Maybe you're the product manager whose latest feature now falls under regulation no one else on the team has read. Maybe you're the one person at your startup who got handed "the AI thing" because you seemed least busy.
However it happened, it’s on your plate now. And it’s not going away.
The EU AI Act was just the first big wave. Dozens of countries are writing their own AI rules: the US, Singapore, Japan, India, and the list keeps growing. AI regulation isn't a one-time event. It's a permanent new area of law, and it gets bigger over time, not smaller.
I find it quite fascinating.
Hi, I'm Silvia Stepitova
AI regulatory lawyer. I spent six years at Amazon, where I led a GenAI contract review project that ended up in the Wall Street Journal and won the company’s Skynet Award. Now I build the AI governance framework in-house for an EU insurance company.
I’ve been on both sides. At Amazon I worked with FinOps to build an AI solution that accelerated internal processes, which meant learning how the systems actually work: what the engineers build, what matters in production, and what only matters on paper. Now I read the regulation and make sure we translate law into practice.
Regulation is written in one language. Systems are built in another.
Someone has to be bilingual.
What you get
Every article takes one topic and goes deep.
The EU AI Act is the anchor. Other jurisdictions are drafting their own rules, and I'll cover them when they change your calculus. But this is a publication about one regulation covered properly, rather than five covered badly. That narrowness is deliberate.
You’ll finish an article knowing which role you have and what it obliges you to do. Which deadlines still apply to you after the omnibus moved them. Whether the Copilot agents your colleagues are already using put you in scope. What Article 111 does to the systems you deployed before the high-risk AI rules apply. And why what your system does can matter more than what you built it to do.
Every article leaves you knowing what to do, not just what the regulation says.
Not a news roundup. Not a law firm alert designed to scare you into calling them.
Just clarity. One email at a time.
Why subscribe?
You can keep piecing it together yourself: LinkedIn posts, 200-page guidance documents, law firm newsletters that exist to sell you something, consultants who discovered AI regulation six months ago.
Or you can get one email that tells you what changed, what it means, and what to do about it, written by someone who has read the regulation, built the tech, and does the compliance work every day.
Every article is free. That doesn’t change.
I read the regulation. I tell you what matters.
That’s the deal.
Selected Work and Press
Generative AI contract review at Amazon.
During my six years at Amazon, I led a GenAI contract review automation project that made it into the Wall Street Journal. The work earned me the company’s Skynet Award.
Slovak national press.
An exclusive feature on the Amazon project and how it used AI in contract review. (In Slovak language.)
AiValuations evidence reviews.
Joint work with Awakened Intelligence on deployed-system evidence: what AI systems actually say and decide once prompts, data, and controls change the vendor’s model. Selected joint pieces:
Scope
The articles stay free. Scope is the paid side: the working documents underneath the writing.
The regulation map. Role assignment. The questions to ask a vendor before anyone signs. The AI inventory template. Kept current as the law moves, because a reference no one maintains is just an old document.
Opening October 15.
Contact
Corrections, disagreement, topics you wish someone would explain properly, and speaking or training for your company are all welcome.
Disclaimer
I write AI Law. Decoded. in a personal capacity. Views are my own.
Everything on AI Law. Decoded. is general information about AI regulation, not legal advice, and reading it doesn't create a lawyer–client relationship. AI regulation moves quickly. Articles reflect the position at the date of publication. Get advice on your own situation before acting on anything here.
