"While employees and customers can pressure companies to act ethically with regard to AI, more attention needs to be focused on laws and government oversight, said Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington, who is on the board of AI Now and gets funding from Microsoft. Without broad regulation, if some companies refuse to sell the software, others will step in.
“We have been attempting to get companies to cease providing tools to the government, rather than trying to ensure the government doesn’t do things we don’t agree with,” Calo said. “They are government agencies — we ought to be able to police them. We can’t ask technology companies to make it all go away.”"