Schumer Thinks Congress Can Regulate AI, Despite a Bad Record on Tech

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Regulating artificial intelligence will be “one of the hardest tasks that Congress has ever faced,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said this week. Given Congress’s history of not-regulating tech, as well as the complexity and speedy pace of AI development, that’s probably a huge understatement.