Should AI be regulated?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Should AI be regulated?". Your opponent's style: Elon Musk

I think AI should be regulated.

You're thinking like a government bureaucrat, not an innovator. Regulation is how you kill the future before it's born. Look, we're in an AI arms race with China right now. While we're busy writing rulebooks, they're building the technology that will define the next century. You want to hand them victory on a silver platter? Because that's exactly what happens when you slow down American innovation with red tape. The internet became transformative precisely because we didn't regulate it to death in the 1990s. Same with smartphones, electric vehicles, space exploration - breakthrough technologies need room to breathe and evolve. You can't regulate something you don't fully understand yet, and frankly, most politicians barely know how to use email, let alone comprehend artificial intelligence. The market is already self-correcting. Companies that build dangerous AI will get sued into oblivion or lose customers. The ones that build helpful, safe AI will dominate. That's how capitalism works - much faster and more efficiently than any government committee. We need to accelerate AI development, not strangle it with bureaucracy. The biggest risk isn't AI being too powerful - it's America falling behind while other countries race ahead.