When the tech boys start asking for new regulations, you know something’s up | John Naughton

The OpenAI CEO says his industry needs government intervention. Whether it’s a ploy or a plea for help, we should be concernedWatching the opening day of the US Senate hearings on AI brought to mind Marx’s quip about history repeating itself, “the first time as tragedy, the second as farce”. Except this time it’s the other way round. Some time ago we had the farce of the boss of Meta (neé Facebook) explaining to a senator that his company made money from adve