Ada Lovelace Institute’s Gaia Marcus: Regulation Would Increase People’s Comfort with AI

Ada Lovelace Institute’s Gaia Marcus: regulation would increase people’s comfort with AI

The head of the UK-based think-tank talks about her hopes and fears for future oversight of AI

AI regulation needs to be smarter in the UK, urges Deepmind boss

Demis Hassabis, chief executive of Google Deepmind, has called on UK policymakers and business heavyweights to embrace the “smart regulation” of AI, warning that a failure to do so could prompt unintended harm, or the loss of public trust. He announced at London’s inaugural SXSW event on Monday: “AI is the most important technology humanity is working on. We should be making sure we do it properly – in a way that’s safe, that gets public buy-in,…