Wheeler re-ups call for new digital agency, citing security among issues raised by artificial intelligence

Former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler says security as well as economic and societal issues associated with artificial intelligence bolster his case for creating a new federal agency with the appropriate expertise to guide the nation’s digital policy.

“Private and government oversight systems that were developed to deal with the industrial revolution are no match for the AI revolution,” Wheeler wrote in a recent article posted by the Brookings Institution, where he is a visiting fellow at the...