Europe’s AI Law Needs a Smart Pause, Not a Stop: Parmy Olson

There’s a common tool in the arsenal for anyone trying to change the course of artificial intelligence: the pause. Two years ago, Elon Musk and other tech leaders published an open letter calling on tech companies to delay their AI development for six months to better protect humanity. Now the target has shifted. Amid a growing fear of getting left behind in a race to build computers smarter than humans, a group of European corporate leaders are pointing the “pause” gun at the European Union, the world’s self-styled AI cop.

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