The future of AI is here. Regulations? Not so much

Imagine a world without environmental regulations or traffic laws, where unlicensed motorists drive as they please and factories pollute with impunity. Those were the facts of life in cities around the world as the industrial revolution took hold. And a few decades from now, we may look back on the emergence of AI as a similarly lawless era. With that in mind, governments in Canada and the European Union, among others, have been active in proposing regulations to protect consumers while the U.S. has largely remained silent -- until now. Computers are increasingly involved in the most important decisions affecting Americans' lives – whether or not someone can buy a home, get a job or even go to jail." This spring, Democratic senators Cory Booker and Ron Wyden proposed the first national AI ethics bill in the form of the Algorithmic Accountability Act. The bill aims to give regulators, and the public, greater insights into how AI systems make the decisions they do -- and what data is ...