President Donald Trump made the right call when he declined to sign the proposed executive order on frontier artificial intelligence.

Washington has a familiar reflex whenever a powerful new technology emerges. First comes the anxiety, then the task force, then the process, then the expectation that innovators should move only after government has found a way to review, classify, or bless what they are doing.

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