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The global struggle over how to regulate AI


Big AI companies have come out hard against comprehensive regulatory efforts in the West — but are receiving a warm welcome from leaders in many other countries.

It banned autonomous weapons and tools that could facilitate the creation and distribution of child sexual abuse material, and put stricter oversight on social media algorithms that can amplify disinformation.Global advocates for AI regulation saw Brazil as a potential model for other countries. Hany Farid, former dean of the UC Berkeley School of Information and a prominent regulation advocate who often testifies at government hearings on the tech sector, told Rest of World that lobbying by big U.S. companies over AI in Western nations has been intense. Shweta Rajpal Kohli, a former public policy head with Uber and Salesforce in India and South Asia who now runs an interest group for domestic startups, told Rest of World the current focus for industry and government alike on AI is development and adoption.

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