Jeff Bezos: Outlawing data centers isn't the answer to AI risks

On CNBC on Thursday, Bezos compared AI and the data centers that support the technology to knives: "You don't want to accidentally outlaw the knife because it can be used in a bad way," he said. "Knives are important tools and yes, every once in a while they get misused by someone, but you don't say the solution to that isn't to say, 'OK, no more data centers, right?

No more knives.' That's not a smart approach to regulation." He said government regulation has a lot of "reasonable" purposes, pointing to federal regulatory agencies like the FAA and the FDA ensuring public safety when people board planes or take prescription drugs.

"There's lots to be said for healthy government regulation to improve safety and products and so on," he said. "And I don't see why that won't be applied at some point to the kinds of new tools that are being built by AI." "You want to regulate the application level," he added.

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