With Silicon Valley executives inserting themselves — and their wallets — into this year’s presidential election, questions remain about how Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump would tackle AI regulation should they win the White House in less than one week.
Business Insider spoke to five experts with experience in government and the private sector about how each administration might regulate AI, which is evolving at breakneck speed and influencing nearly every factor of American life.
“There should be more attention paid to what the candidates do in the AI area, just because it’s such an important space,” Darrell West, a senior fellow in the Center for Technology Innovation at the nonpartisan Brookings Institute, told Business Insider. “But neither Trump nor Harris have been very detailed in outlining their policies. Neither has put out major position papers on the topic, so it’s a little bit of a black box in terms of how each administration …