What’s behind AI leaders’ calls for a slowdown?

Welcome to the daily Inside Scoop newsletter. Congress is out of session until after the midterms, nixing any chance of AI regulation anytime soon. The companies say they want the guardrails. The question is, who will put them into place? Also, in a new report, the United Nations said the Feb. 28 attack on a school in Iran amounted to a war crime. I texted with NBC News Digital international editor Babak Dehghanpisheh about that. Let’s get into it. Whistleblowers, AI industry titans and AI safety advocates have agreed that the rapidly advancing tech poses a threat to humanity and must be checked.