On January 20th Beacon Hill legislators hosted a panel discussion on AI “guardrails” with the assumption they had the power to regulate AI. The only questions were: should and how?
Panel members contemplated three major questions.
1) update regulations to simply apply existing rules to AI vs. taking the opportunity to re-write regulations to reflect a new AI reality
2) States rights vs federal government supremacy
3) How might regulation hinder innovation
But the biggest question went unasked until later in the event: what is AI, what will it become, how can we regulate something that might be completely different in a mere six months than our current expectations?
Actually it only took a week or so to have AI surprise us.
Add energy policy and data center politics into the mix and you have a very interesting public policy discussion ahead.