Government should not be telling tech companies how to develop their artificial intelligence, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox says, but it must be in the business of protecting children.

“The minute you decide to use those tools to give my kid a sexualized chatbot, then it’s my business and it’s the government’s business, and we are going to get involved,” he told a room full of tech executives at an AI Summit the Utah Department of Commerce hosted on Tuesday.

Cox has had a long complicated relationship with social media and artificial intelligence. And, while he doesn’t believe the government should be telling companies how to develop technology, he said he believes it must dictate some limits.

And the federal government should not interfere with that effort, he said.

“However much you hate soc

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