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AI risks are prompting calls for new regulatory agency oversight

Sam Altman
Open AI CEO Sam Altman is among those calling for regulation. Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images

Senators introduce a bill to create an agency to regulate AI, and ChatGPT’s chief proposes a licensing framework.

US Senator Michael Bennet (D-Colo) and Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt) introduced the Digital Platform Commission Act (DPCA) last week. It’s the first-ever legislation in Congress to create a federal agency to provide comprehensive regulation of digital platforms to protect consumers and promote competition, with the specific task of creating a