AI needs global rules that won't stifle innovation

The new year begins today with prospects of technology, especially artificial intelligence (AI), shaping the way we work and the way we use our time. The regulators in all the countries must get their acts together and pool their wisdom to evolve a uniform set of laws to manage the transition.
 

After the Second World War, the world was divided into two major blocks led by the United States (US) and the Soviet Union, with the third world not having much say on anything. The countries in the western block, however, decided to co-operate and move towards easier movement of