Amazon Security Chief Urges Hands-Off Approach to AI Regulation

Amazon.com Inc.’s chief security officer joined officials at other major tech companies in calling for fewer regulations in artificial intelligence, warning that government involvement in this rapidly emerging area risks narrowing the scope of the company’s work.

“The tension with regulation of any kind is that it tends to retard progress,” Steve Schmidt, who heads security for both Amazon and AWS, told Bloomberg News on Tuesday. “So the way we tend to focus on standards is to let the industry figure out what the right standards are, and that will be driven by our customers.”

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