Thune: Legislation to regulate AI needs to have a 'light touch'

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) on Monday said any legislation Congress passes to regulate AI must have a “light touch” so as not to stifle innovation and tempered recent warnings that superintelligent AI could exterminate humanity as a “worst-case scenario.” “It needs to strike a balance, light touch.

You don’t want to stifle innovation...