Marketplace Tech · Wednesday, September 16, 2026
AI futurist Amy Webb draws parallels between AI development and biotechnology, noting that while genetics research has established regulatory processes, AI development has lacked similar oversight. She suggests that the failure to establish these processes over the last decade has created a complex situation, making it difficult to course-correct now.
“It's really tough to allow a technology to develop and at the same time dictate how it should be developed. But there are examples of how to do this in other fields, one of which is biotechnology.”
“So, you know, there is a process in place, you can't just go into a lab and tinker with genetics totally, uh, on your own. You know, you can't do that. Um, there are rules in place that allow innovation to happen and basically regulate the end product. We just never did that, um, when it came to artificial intelligence.”
“So one of the things that we've lost now is 10 years of creating processes and policies, getting everybody together and figuring out a way that working together creates new value.”