Perhaps not necessarily as a best practice but a point of reality, one of the big takeaways from this “AI Index” report is that AI is becoming increasingly ubiquitous in all of our lives.
Ten years ago, there were a lot of AI problems that were very difficult to solve. This meant that AI was something that was just being researched, whereas, if you move forward 10 years, AI is now one of those things that are coming out of the lab and moving into the real world. A lot of companies are very excited about using AI technologies, and you're going to start seeing them used more and more. Investment in AI is going through the roof, and the number of AI patents is going through the roof.
Very often, I would say, a lot of companies are quite keen to use AI before perhaps coming to terms with some of the negative ways in which it can be deployed. As a regulator, very often it might be worth asking, when should we care about this? When is the time to regulate? I would say that—