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Before regulating AI, try the laws we already have

Existing law addresses AI’s harms and learns from real cases, not hypothetical ones

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Oct 10, 2026
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John Chisholm is a trustee of the Santa Fe Institute and the Foundation for Economic Education and is a former member of the MIT Corporation.

Legislators in Washington and dozens of state capitals are racing to legislate away AI’s risks, even as Brussels delays parts of its own sweeping AI Act. Yet AI promises earlier disease detection, faster drug disco…

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