Italy has become the first country in the European Union to pass a national law regulating artificial intelligence, following the implementation of the bloc-wide AI Act. Protecting children from AI is currently top of mind among politicians after a string of recent incidents involving chatbots. In April, it was found that Meta’s AI chatbots, accessible through Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, could engage in explicit conversations with minors if framed as role-playing. When it comes to the controversial topic of copyright, human-authored works created with the help of AI can be protected by copyright law if they show intellectual effort. With its new law, it has shown it is not waiting for the complete enactment of the EU AI Act in 2030 for AI regulation within its borders.