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Thune: Legislation to regulate AI needs to have a 'light touch'

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) on Monday said any legislation Congress passes to regulate AI must have a “light touch” so as not to stifle innovation and tempered recent warnings that superintelligent AI could exterminate humanity as a “worst-case scenario.

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    Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) on Monday said any legislation Congress passes to regulate AI must have a “light touch” so as not to stifle innovation and tempered recent warnings that superintelligent AI could exterminate humanity as a “worst-case scenario.

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