Why creating an international body for AI is a bad idea

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt re-upped his calls for a global body, akin to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, to advise member nations on regulating AI.

He claims that AI policy makers, "are looking for impartial, technically reliable and timely assessments about its speed of progress and impact."

Increased understanding of the industry would doubtlessly help lawmakers to navigate whatever challenges AI will bring, but Schmidt's template of the IPCC to achieve that is flawed. One need only to look at the structure and record of the actual IPCC to see its failings.