For one, there’s a strong case for governments to innovate in the regulatory space in a way that’s like innovation in the tech sector itself. Instead of waiting for every issue to mature, governments can act more quickly and incrementally with limited initial regulatory steps—and then learn and take stock from the resulting experience. In other words, take the concept of a “minimum viable product” and consider the type of approach we advocated for AI and facial recognition, described in chapter twelve. We readily recognized that just as for a new business or software product, the first
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