Politico May 17, 2024
Artificial intelligence skeptics haven’t made much headway in getting Washington to slow the tech’s rollout in health care or regulate it more strictly.
But they have an ally in Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.).
Booker said this week he is worried lawmakers could make the same mistakes they did with social media in taking a laissez-faire approach. “Government did virtually nothing, nothing to protect against the ills and nothing to create standards and guidelines,” he said during a panel discussion hosted by consumer advocacy group Public Citizen in Washington.
The panel featured other skeptics, including representatives from the unions National Nurses United and the AFL-CIO, the AI Now Institute and George Washington University’s law school. Each panelist shared concerns about bias...