The technology surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) has advanced at an impressive and seemingly ever-increasing rate. Computer systems have defeated humans at Jeopardy, driven cars through city streets, and are being employed in countless applications, such as enabling traders to gain just a small, but critical, edge through informed automated trading decisions in financial markets. With such advancements come significant transformations of business, legal, and regulatory environments. Small incremental advancements in many technologies, such as computers that control traffic lights, do not necessarily raise significant issues but still enrich human lives and human potential. The genius of Icarus did not guarantee success with his waxen wings—only with heavier-than-air flight. The advent of more general human-like artificial intelligence does, however, raise substantial concerns. These concerns include potential catastrophic risks from maladapted or malignant AI systems. Legal and regulatory bodies involved with the current AI legal landscape are engaged in existing laws and regulations, in which the machines are tools. Intellectual property law is certainly required for patenting the algorithms that form at least the basis for the machine learning technology that has facilitated AI developments. Computer science is required for the algorithms and systems that sparked today's concerns over AI. Data privacy and security are needed to prevent tools manufactured by AI from being misused or becoming dangerous. But in general, AI has not been a primary area of legislative concern or activity. Although there have been calls for new legal rules and ethical considerations, the big three executive branch technological agencies in the United States have not addressed AI legal and policy concerns before starting the AI legal foundations project, as it appears in other developed nations.