US risks ceding AI governance leadership to China and the EU
The voluntary agreement involving US tech companies that Trump announced rests largely on self-policing, in contrast to the approach taken by Brussels and Beijing
The administration’s logic is understandable. AI is becoming a source of economic and military power, and Washington does not want regulation to slow American companies while China races ahead. But what happens when the country developing many of the world’s most powerful AI systems tells the rest of the world that the companies building them should largely police themselves?
