US and UK regulators talk up the need for AI regulation

As the rapid march of generative AI continues, regulators on both side of the pond seem to have decided they had better start taking a proper look at what’s going on.
Yesterday the New York Times published an op-ed by Lina Khan, Chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the US with the headline ‘We Must Regulate A.I. Here’s How.’ In the piece, she contrasts the current technological Rubicon we appear to be crossing with the rapid development of generative AI programm