The AI Disconnect: Why Regulation is a Hard Sell The recent comments from Australia's chief AI regulator have sparked a heated debate about the role of government in regulating emerging technologies.
The rejection by US regulators of Donald Trump's attempt to curb mail in voting has also been met with skepticism, but it's the intersection of these two stories that reveals a more profound issue: our collective inability to grasp the implications of creating and deploying powerful AI systems.
The parallels between the regulatory challenges facing AI and those of the early days of software development are striking.