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"Legislators in Washington and dozens of state capitals are racing to legislate away AI’s risks, even as Brussels delays parts of its own sweeping AI Act. Yet, AI promises earlier disease detection, faster drug discovery, better fraud detection, and personalized learning. Five considerations argue for going slow on new rules—and for first asking which harms the laws we already have can’t reach. First, new technologies follow predictable panic cycles. Printing, photography, motion pictures, automobiles and airplanes each set off alarms." - John Chisholm