Policymakers want to regulate AI but lack consensus on how

According to a new Clifford Chance survey of 1,000 tech policy experts across the United States, U.K., Germany and France, policymakers are concerned about the impact of artificial intelligence, but perhaps not nearly enough. Though policymakers rightly worry about cybersecurity, it's perhaps too easy to focus on near-term, obvious threats while the longer-term, not-obvious-at-all threats of AI get ignored. Or, rather, not ignored, but there is no consensus on how to tackle emerging issues with AI. When YouGov polled tech policy experts on behalf of Clifford Chance and asked priority areas for regulation ("To what extent do you think the following issues should be priorities for new legislation or regulation?"), ethical use of AI and algorithmic bias ranked well down the pecking order from other issues: Maybe this isn't a big deal, except that AI (or, more accurately, machine learning) finds its way into higher-ranked priorities like data privacy and misinformation. Indeed, it's arguably the primary catalyst for problems in these areas, not to mention the "brains" behind sophisticated cybersecurity threats.