Abdul El-Sayed on AI Regulation: "We Needed Action Yesterday, We Need It Now"
Physician and public health advocate Abdul El-Sayed called for immediate AI regulation, arguing that policymakers are already behind and that further delay is not an option. His remarks were aired on C-SPAN.
Why this matters: The urgency argument is not new, but it keeps getting made because the legislation keeps not happening. Every month without federal AI rules is a month where companies set their own standards, and those standards tend to favor the companies. El-Sayed comes from public health, where delayed action has a body count. That framing matters. AI harms are not all theoretical, and the people most exposed to them rarely have a seat at the table where the rules get written.
Who should care: AI governance · Lawyers · Administrators · Compliance · General readers · Policy
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