AI absolutely needs guardrails. But letting a new agency redefine »advanced AI« whenever it likes could turn regulation into a very expensive velvet rope. Google and OpenAI get compliance departments; smaller labs get a number and a chair at the DMV. Nothing says competition like needing government permission to compete.
That’s in large part why all the major players have been pushing for regulation, it means anyone who wants to innovate or optimize has to work for them.
AI absolutely needs guardrails. But letting a new agency redefine »advanced AI« whenever it likes could turn regulation into a very expensive velvet rope. Google and OpenAI get compliance departments; smaller labs get a number and a chair at the DMV. Nothing says competition like needing government permission to compete.
That’s in large part why all the major players have been pushing for regulation, it means anyone who wants to innovate or optimize has to work for them.
Ain’t no moat like regulatory capture
And, anyway, a single country banning it will do nothing.
They’ll just move their training tasks to foreign contractors/subsidiary companies.