The time for careful consideration of AI regulation options is now. In a few years, it could be too late | Edition #280

A few weeks ago, I wrote that, from a legal perspective, 2026 would be a make-or-break year for AI.

The regulatory Wild West we are currently living in cannot possibly persist without chaos reigning and people realizing that they are fully unprotected from the negative consequences of AI development and deployment.

We are still in March, but it has already become clear that this is the year in which democratically elected authorities must take bold decisions on AI.

An important factor that has led us to where we are now is that the risk profile and the social impact of AI have been clearly underestimated over the past 10-15 years of AI policy debates.

They did not take into account the level of acceleration and the widespread AI development and deployment we have been observing over the past three years.