AI regulations? Don't worry about it, White House tells tech industry

Tech industry execs and engineers fretting about any backlash against artificial intelligence technology can rest assured that the White House, at least, isn't likely to slow its spread. "We didn't cut the lines before Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call. We didn't regulate flight before the Wright Brothers took off at Kitty Hawk," said, Michael Kratsios, the deputy assistant to the president for technology policy, in prepared remarks to tech companies. The views came at an AI summit that drew Amazon, Facebook, Google, Intel and 34 other companies to discuss the technology. AI is blazing-hot technology right now, a top priority at the world's biggest tech companies, fuel for countless startups, and now even an undergraduate degree program at Carnegie Mellon University.