Edition 007: Who Writes the Rules?

When we talk about how the federal government governs anything, we are usually talking about laws — legislative bills introduced by Congress, debated, amended, and then signed the President; rules built to outlast the administrations that wrote them. That is how American government has handled the critical issues, like civil rights, securities regulation, food and drug safety, and environmental protection. While none of these is perfect, each rests on a law that Congress passed, the President signed, and no one alone can erase.

Artificial intelligence has no such law. Congress has not enacted any comprehensive AI legislation.  In fact, it has not even enacted any narrow AI legislation.