Is it Time to Regulate AI?

September 12, 2024 • by Marc Airhart

Artificial intelligence is very loosely regulated in the U.S. What kinds of laws would help make AI safer and more useful for everyone?

A statue of a blindfolded woman in a toga holding a scale in one hand and a sword in the other, representing the legal system

Elements of the cover image for this episode were generated using Midjourney and Photoshop’s generative AI tools. Photo-Illustration: Martha Morales


Today on AI for the Rest of Us, we’re talking about AI and the law. What are the biggest risks of AI that are not currently regulated? Do the makers of AI chatbots like ChatGPT owe something to content creators whose material was scraped to train the models? What kinds of things could we do to make AI safer and more useful for everyone? And could too much regulation stifle innovation and US competitiveness?

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