The Rush to Regulate AI: We’ve Been Here Before
null Jan. 2, 2024 3:16 pm ET Photo: Getty ImagesYuval Levin is right to caution against the impulse to regulate AI in a state of panic (“Artificial Intelligence and the Law of the Horse,” op-ed, Dec. 22). Biotechnology was in a similar position in the early 1980s as research in recombinant DNA began to yield new medicines, pesticides, crops and more. As today with AI, white papers from the regulatory agencies were piling up. Then-Sen. Al Gore proposed a new agency to govern all biotechnology. Instead, the White House called together the research and regulatory agencies and instructed them to sort out their concerns and jurisdictions. The result, in 1986, applied existing statutes along with the principle that regulators should focus on actual risks of the product, rather than imaginary risks of the technology used to make it.Copyright ©2024 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8Sponsored OffersWalmart: $20 Off Walmart Promo Code - Any $50+ Orde
Jan. 2, 2024 3:16 pm ET
Yuval Levin is right to caution against the impulse to regulate AI in a state of panic (“Artificial Intelligence and the Law of the Horse,” op-ed, Dec. 22). Biotechnology was in a similar position in the early 1980s as research in recombinant DNA began to yield new medicines, pesticides, crops and more. As today with AI, white papers from the regulatory agencies were piling up. Then-Sen. Al Gore proposed a new agency to govern all biotechnology.
Instead, the White House called together the research and regulatory agencies and instructed them to sort out their concerns and jurisdictions. The result, in 1986, applied existing statutes along with the principle that regulators should focus on actual risks of the product, rather than imaginary risks of the technology used to make it.
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