The U.S. has so far been relatively permissive toward AI technologies--and we should keep it that way. It's the reason so much innovation happens here rather than in the more prohibitory European nations. The main reason the government hasn't hampered the industry with regulation is that there's no overbearing federal agency dedicated strictly to AI. Instead, we have a patchwork of federal and state authorities scrutinizing these technologies. The Federal Trade Commission and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, for example, recently hosted a workshop to determine how to oversee automated-car technologies.