FDR’s lesson for AI regulation
A piece published in Fortune draws on Franklin Roosevelt's approach to regulation as a framework for thinking about how governments should respond to artificial intelligence.
Why this matters: Historical analogies to regulation can be useful or they can be a way to avoid the hard specifics. The New Deal worked because it responded to a concrete crisis with concrete rules and real enforcement. AI regulation debates tend to stay abstract for a long time while the technology moves fast. The useful version of this argument names who gets protected, from what, and who is on the hook when something goes wrong. The decorative version just borrows FDR's credibility without doing that work.
Who should care: AI governance · Lawyers · Administrators · Compliance · General readers · Policy
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