Safeguarding AI Is Up to Everyone

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September 05, 2023

Artificial intelligence is making its way into our daily lives in a variety of ways: it can chat with us, discover potential new medications and control self-driving cars. As it becomes ubiquitous, its risks—of making mistakes, spreading misinformation and reinforcing biases—will only continue to grow. So how should the government regulate this technology? Because AI has a variety of applications, there's no single agency best suited to rein it in. Instead, the onus of protecting humans from AI lies on each industry that uses the tech. Read more in an editorial written by the editors of Scientific American.

Sophie Bushwick, Associate Editor, Technology

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