Tech Executives Urge Senators to Rethink Regulations for AI

The leaders of some of the biggest technology and artificial intelligence companies appeared before Congress on Thursday with a wish list of sorts that at its top has doing away with regulations they say inhibit their firms’ growth and, by default, sends business to China.

“It is very hard to say how far ahead we are, but I would say not a huge amount of time,” OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman said at the hearing in response to a question about whether the US or China is winning in AI. The US, he said, needs “sensible regulation that does not slow us down.”