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The University Daily Kansan · · International · AI Governance

A University of Kansas student publication has run a piece arguing that regulating artificial intelligence does not amount to an infringement on personal freedom. The piece pushes back on a common objection raised against AI oversight proposals.

Why this matters: The 'regulation equals lost freedom' argument gets repeated a lot, and it tends to shut down more specific conversations that actually matter. Who gets harmed when AI goes wrong? Who pays for it? Those questions do not get answered by treating every rule as an attack on innovation. Oversight of powerful systems is not the same thing as censorship or control. The real freedom issue is often the other direction: what happens to people when AI makes consequential decisions about them and nobody is accountable.

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