Rushing to regulate AI out of every hypothetical danger may create real ones.

Comment “Regulation” and we’ll send you an article that explores this further. Fraud, negligence, discrimination, deceptive claims, identity theft, and price-fixing are already illegal, whether AI is involved or not. Existing law can often address actual harms as they emerge. Premature regulation can freeze bad assumptions into law, raise barriers for startups, and protect large firms that can absorb compliance costs. A better approach begins with experience: identify concrete harms, test whether current law can handle them, and legislate only where genuine gaps appear.