The US is racing ahead in its bid to control artificial intelligence – why is the EU so far behind? | Seth Lazar

Washington is laying down rules for the use of seemingly mundane AI that could, in fact, be incredibly dangerousBetween fancy global summits, OpenAI’s boardroom drama and rumoured technical breakthroughs, the world has recently been paying close attention to the frontiers of AI research. But last month the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the US released a memo on the use of more mundane AI systems in government that is likely, in the near term at least, to be equally c