‘AI Valley’ author worries there’s ‘so much power in the hands of few people’

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For decades, scientists have dreamed of computers so sophisticated they could think like humans — and worried what might happen if those machines began to act independently. In 2023, President Biden issued an executive order imposing some regulatory safeguards on AI development, but President Trump has repealed that order, saying Biden’s approach imposed unnecessary government control on innovation.

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Gary Rivlin says regulation is a key component to controlling how AI is used: “I personally think AI could be an amazing thing around health, medicine, scientific discoveries, education, a wide array of things — as long as we’re

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