Opinion
It’s rare to see a government that’s tempted to regulate with a heavy hand instead decide to go for a light touch. Yet that was the welcome sight on Tuesday when President Donald Trump emerged from a White House meeting to tout commitments from technology leaders to do a better job of keeping increasingly powerful artificial intelligence systems under human control.
TL;DR
- Technology leaders committed to keeping AI systems under human control.
- President Donald Trump announced these commitments after a White House meeting.
- The government opted for a light-touch approach to AI regulation.
- The focus is on maintaining human oversight of increasingly powerful AI.