evidence: And it should be because we’re trying to be responsible about very high stakes." World leaders want to lead the world on AI From China to Europe, top officials staked their positions on AI as the world grapples with regulating the rapidly developing technology that has big implications for workplaces, elections and privacy. The European Union has devised the world’s first comprehensive AI rules ahead of a busy election year, with AI-powered misinformation and disinformation the biggest risk to the global economy as it threatens to erode democracy and polarize society, according to a World Economic Forum report released last week. Chinese Premier Li Qiang called AI "a double-edged sword." "Human beings must control the machines instead of having the machines control us," he said in a speech Tuesday. "AI must be guided in a direction that is conducive to the progress of humanity, so there should be a redline in AI development — a red line that must not be crossed," Li said, without elaborating.