🔗 Why the Online Harms Act is the Wrong Way to Regulate AI Chatbots - Michael Geist

Applying the Online Harms Act to AI chatbot conversations now risks reopening the very issues policymakers previously sought to avoid. In fact, it is difficult to see the difference between something posted to an AI chatbot or similar content entered into a search query or included in text message or email correspondence. If proactive monitoring of searches, emails or texts is subject to privacy safeguards, so too should be AI chatbot engagement.

I’m all for smart regulation of AI, but agree that this isn’t the way to go.