The One Big Problem Washington Faces on AI

AI took its star turn through Congress this week, with lawmakers doing their best to demonstrate their awareness of how the tech is already disrupting society.

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“If the United States wants to have a regulatory environment for AI that is flexible, responsive, and adaptable to emerging risks, it should lean into the sector-specific approach it has taken to regulation,” Hodan Omaar, a senior policy analyst at the nonpartisan Center for Data Innovation, told Mallory. “Federal regulators are the best placed to regulate issues in different domains because they have industry-specific knowledge.”