Companies knew that hobbling states from acting for 10 years, or even five, would have been eons, said Amba Kak, co-executive director of AI Now Institute and former senior adviser on AI to the Federal Trade Commission — time in which bills would be introduced, delayed, debated and challenged in court. By the time it shakes out, it’s too late. “If there’s one lesson from the last decade of social media,” Kak added, “it’s that it’s difficult, maybe even impossible, to catch up with this tech sector once business models and practices have already been entrenched.”

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