AI regulation stirs as unrestricted AI booms in China

Overinnovation can be a distinct problem, and it may be infecting the fast-growing and competitive AI industry, said Shawn Rogers, senior director of global enablement, digital content and analytic strategy at integration and analytics vendor Tibco Software Inc. Businesses in just about every sector are deploying AI and intelligent automation in their workflows, and a growing number of vendors sell AI products and services. As AI users and AI vendors seek to beat the competition by offering the latest and the best, they risk overinnovating -- knowingly or inadvertently sacrificing safe and ethical practices to better meet the perceived needs of their clients. An AI user, for example, may replace human workers with automated ones or use a recommendation system that provides more personalized choices to customers but collects and uses more of their information. Conversely, an AI vendor might train a machine learning model with biased data or create AI-assisted healthcare software that doesn't comply with the HIPAA privacy standards established under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. President Donald Trump has now ordered U.S. government agencies to develop new regulatory approaches on AI.