The fact that data protection law is now immediately relevant to AI systems, including the most complex ones, is not an unintended consequence, looking at how it came to be in the 1960s & 70s. Here is an explanation of why it offers powerful tools to regulate #AI:

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2025/02/10/why-data-protection-legislation-offers-a-powerful-tool-for-regulating-ai/