{"id":624357,"date":"2026-09-14T12:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T12:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/624357\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T12:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T12:30:11","slug":"tech-stocks-fall-after-calls-for-ai-development-to-slow-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/624357\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech stocks fall after calls for AI development to slow down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are there laws in place to protect against AI? No, says expertpublished at 12:57 BST<\/p>\n<p>12:57 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Stephanie Hare has long brunette hair, wears a black shirt and sits in the BBC studio\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/e871f9fa-4cea-44c6-9019-527d885c9c6f.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stephanie Hare, co-host of AI Decoded<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Our experts are now asked what guardrails and laws are in place to protect people from the risks of AI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There are none, says Stephanie Hare. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some of the tech firms building AI claim to be begging for more regulation. But at the same time, they argue that too much regulation would allow China to race ahead of the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The &#8220;existential angst&#8221; about AI is being driven by the US industry, Hare says. American regulation would not stop Chinese companies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But there&#8217;s another point, Hare adds. &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t work that way. The technology&#8217;s out of the bottle. Iran could be using this, North Korea could use it, Russia could use it.&#8221; Even if the US and China teamed up on regulation, it might not have an effect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">China and the US are &#8220;not on the same page&#8221; in terms of asking for more regulation, Hare adds. If anything, China thinks US companies are trying to stifle competition and that regulation is about preserving a US lead in the AI sector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Marc Cieslak says the AI race is often being framed in Cold War terms, with many AI executives being former officials from the US government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This framing, combined with the increased use of autonomous systems in military settings around the world, makes AI start to become &#8220;quite a lot more frightening&#8221;, he says.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"BBC Your Voice branding\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/7765c2c7-b685-469d-a5d0-b76e2d136a1c.png.webp\"  width=\"964\" height=\"150\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Are there laws in place to protect against AI? No, says expertpublished at 12:57 BST 12:57 BST Image&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-624357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}