By Neil Roland ( October 2, 2026, 20:49 GMT | Insight) -- New artificial-intelligence regulation may be needed to rein in development of cutting-edge tools that pose risks to society, said Dan Katz, the International Monetary Fund’s first deputy managing director. The leading risk is cybersecurity, he said, and defenders will need to respond with the same frontier AI tools used by cyber actors. “That gets to a broader debate about whether increasingly powerful AI systems could pose such severe risks to society as a whole that new regulation is needed to slow the pace of development,” Katz said.New artificial-intelligence regulation may be needed to rein in development of cutting-edge tools that pose risks to society, said Dan Katz, the International Monetary Fund’s first deputy managing director....
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