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This article centers on the regulatory challenges facing the AI industry, specifically addressing the "race to the bottom" dynamics that emerge when meaningful oversight is proposed. The discussion highlights how current narratives often mischaracterize regulation as a threat rather than recognizing it as essential for fostering healthy competition within the sector.

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What’s really motivating these AI apocalypse stories?

AI Now InstituteSeptember 19, 20261 min read

"Nobody is helped if we have an unregulated sector that's engaged in the race to the bottom. That's what we're seeing right here and now," says AI Now's Sarah Myers West on The Listening Post show. The post What’s really motivating these AI apocalypse stories? appeared first on AI Now Institute.

AI Now’s co-executive director Sarah Myers West joins Al Jazeera’s The Listening Post to talk about regulating the tech industry, and the familiar race to the bottom we see playing out in front of us.

“Time and again, whenever we’ve seen any movement toward meaningful regulation of the tech industry, we see a revival of this [race] narrative,” says Myers West. “What this narrative mistakes though is that regulation of the sector actually would be a tremendous boon to competition. Nobody is helped if we have an unregulated sector that’s engaged in the race to the bottom. That’s what we’re seeing right here and now.”

Watch the full interview here.

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