President Biden visits Bay Area, uses social media as cautionary tale to guide AI laws
Gavin Newsom, right, talks with President Joe Biden during Biden's visit to Baylands Nature Preserve on June 19, 2023, in Palo Alto, California. - Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group/TNS

President Joe Biden, in a visit Tuesday to the epicenter of the technology industry, pointed to the dangers of unrestrained social media as he called for federal laws to protect Americans from fast-accelerating new artificial intelligence. “Social media is already showing us the harm … powerful technology can do without the right safeguards in place,” Biden said before a meeting with AI experts and researchers at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. “That’s why I said at the State of the Union that Congress needs to pass bipartisan privacy legislation to impose strict limits on personal data c...