George Clooney Says the Government Shouldn’t Regulate AI: ‘These Are Not the People You Want to Entrust the Holy Grail With’

George Clooney doesn't trust the government to regulate AI

Another day, another filmmaker using their platform at the Venice Film Festival to talk about the ways in which the U.S. government is untrustworthy. Next up is George Clooney (again), who weighs in on the idea of AI regulation. Though presumably we’d like some regulation for the technology that’s rapidly being adopted across industries, Clooney doesn’t trust the government to be the arbiters of that. “I don’t know that you want government to be…

George Clooney Says the Government Shouldn’t Regulate AI: ‘These Are Not the People You Want to Entrust the Holy Grail With’

George Clooney has said he doesn’t trust the government to regulate AI. “I don’t know that you want government to be regulating this either, because I sit and watch when Zuckerberg is testifying in front of, you know, a 94-year-old Chuck Grassley, and they’re like, ‘Well, how do you turn that computer on?’” he joked, […]

Clooney Calls Government Unfit to Regulate AI, Warns Deepfakes Threaten Public Trust

Actor George Clooney argued at Venice that governments lack the expertise to regulate AI, while warning deepfakes could make real evidence impossible to trust.