AI's anything-goes moment

The artificial intelligence industry is getting nothing but green lights in all directions—now it needs to deliver on its promises. AI makers are getting everything they have ever asked for or could possibly want:

1. No limits: More money, energy and resources are flowing into the technology's development than any other industry has ever received in such a concentrated time span.
2. No rules: In the second Trump era, the U.S. has dropped any pretense of trying to erect regulatory guardrails around AI.
3. No arguments: Gung-ho CEOs and businesses are pushing AI use on sometimes resistant workforces and a skeptical public, telling hesitaters to get on the AI train or get left behind.
4. No doubts: Business leaders and policymakers have successfully sidelined critical questions about harms from AI bias and misuse, privacy violations, and appropriation of intellectual property.