Senator Ted Cruz is sounding the alarm on artificial intelligence (AI), recently saying Congress is unprepared. According to Cruz, Congress has no idea what to do to regulate AI and stop its potential dangers.

As Cruz said, Congress is not very “tech savvy” and they just don’t understand the steps that need to be taken to protect America from rogue AI.

AI regulation and putting limits on AI are extremely important because, without this, AI can spin out of control.

In addition, AI can be used by tyrants and regimes to crack down on basic rights and extend control and surveillance to ridiculous levels.

A man was recently locked out of his smart home, for example, after a delivery driver said he’d heard racist words when he delivered a package. The Amazon-powered AI system just shifted into place and shut down his systems.

Even programs like ChatGPT have the potential to take over systems and tasks where their version of what’s “true” could become dominant in dangerous ways.

It’s clear that we need more action on AI, but Cruz says it’s not happening.

AI also has the potential to replace millions of jobs, including self-driving cars and on assembly lines. Failing to regulate AI or figure out laws around corporations using it leaves the field wide open for corporate or government abuse.

There need to be some restrictions and limits, as Cruz is saying.

At the same time, Cruz wants to ensure the US doesn’t fall behind adversaries like China and regulate too strongly, as he believes the European Union is doing.

In April, Senator Chuck Schumer put forward the first steps to AI regulation, but it’s still in the proposal stage.

Meanwhile, the EU government just recently approved the Artificial Intelligence Act, which puts a number of guardrails on AI use by governments.