Trump’s plan to ban US states from AI regulation will ‘hold us back’, says Microsoft science chief

Eric Horvitz's comments come despite reports that Microsoft is lobbying with Google, Meta and Amazon to support ban

Microsoft's chief scientist has warned that Donald Trump's proposed ban on state-level guardrails on artificial intelligence will slow the development of the frontier technology rather than accelerate it.

Dr Eric Horvitz, a former technology adviser to Joe Biden, said bans on regulation will hold us back" and could be at odds with making good progress on not just advancing the science, but in translating it into practice".