With a week to go until Republican former President Donald Trump and his Democrat counterpart Kamala Harris face off in the US presidential election and with polls putting the result on a knife’s edge, the future direction of the US on AI remains up in the air, since both candidates contrast sharply in approaches to regulation and handling of the technology. Unlike the EU where the AI Act was approved earlier this year in a bid to curb high-risk machine learning tools, the US lacks nation-wide AI rules. During the current mandate of outgoing Democrat President Joe Biden, however, the US govern…