Corporate titan Microsoft just called for the U.S. government to regulate what it and other Big Tech companies are doing with artificial intelligence.

And it is not the only major A.I. company that has requested government intervention.

A few thoughts:

These companies are not wrong. Public Citizen has been pressuring the federal government to move urgently and aggressively on regulating artificial intelligence.

But it is, to put it mildly, uncommon for a multinational corporation like Microsoft — one of the richest and most ubiquitous on the planet — to *ask* to be meaningfully regulated.

In fact, as you know, businesses like Microsoft spend a lot of money — bankrolling politicians, funding lobbyists, generating propaganda, and hiring armies of lawyers — blatantly trying to weaken regulations (or prevent them from being enacted in the first place) and fighting them in court.

If A.I. makes even the tech titans rushing it into existence nervous enough to beg for government oversight, maybe they should just stop working on it.

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Even companies developing artificial intelligence are asking the federal government to step in before it’s too late. Congress must move — urgently and aggressively — to understand the risks of A.I. and to enact comprehensive, powerful regulations that will protect the American people from those risks.

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