Outside voices: Do FTAs and digital pacts hold the key to AI concordance?

Free trade agreements and digital economy pacts should emerge as centerpieces in worldwide efforts to forge understandings designed to capture the promise of artificial intelligence and deal with its pitfalls, Joshua Meltzer, a Brookings Institution senior fellow, writes in a deep dive into trade’s potential role in shaping AI rules . International forums – he mentions the G7 and the U.S.-European Union Trade and Technology Council, among others – have begun the discussion and should continue blending AI considerations into...