Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai’s recent call for regulating artificial intelligence (AI) has reignited the debate on the matter. While Pichai is not the first corporate leader to do so — Tesla’s Elon Musk has been advocating this for the past several years — the timing is important.
AI-based applications, such as facial recognition, are increasingly finding their way into routine usage, and they are evolving. Given the ever-changing nature of AI technology, experts are of the view that rules to regulate it have to be application-based.
Sajai Singh, partner at law firm J Sagar Associates, states the dilemma that regulators across

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