Dhaka, April 5 -- If the British computer scientist Alan Turing's work on "thinking machines" was the prequel to what we now call artificial intelligence, the late psychologist Daniel Kahneman's bestselling Thinking, Fast and Slow might be the sequel, given its insights into how we ourselves think. Understanding "us" will be crucial for regulating "them."

That effort has rapidly moved to the top of policymakers' agenda. On March 21, the United Nations unanimously adopted a landmark resolution (led by the United States) calling on the international community "to govern this technology rather than let it govern us." And that came on the heels of the European Union's AI Act and the Bletchley Declaration on AI safety, which more than 20 coun...