Preventing an AI Apocalypse by Seth Baum

The idea that the type of reset and rule-making you suggest is possible, or even could have been possible if different choices had been made in the past, is an illusion. A very simple illustration of this: look through all the articles you can find on PS that talk about "regluation" of different aspects of tech and biotech (and there are quite a few), and you will notice that literally *all of them* will pontificate that *something* should be done, or occasionally outline in broad-brush terms *what* should be done, but *not a single one* will ever suggest *how* it can be done, as in, laws that are enforcable and policable, how the penalties would work, etc. Instead, it's always all very Jean Luc Picard: "Make it happen, make it so". And it's not just writers on PS; as someone who has been following this debate for a very long time, I haven't found anyone put forward ideas about regulation of tech that can demonstrably work. If bodies do eventually get to the point of passing laws, they are of "Cookie Consent" variety - misdirected and futile nonsense.