[jstanley]

To address just your first sentence:

We don't actually need AI to invent crypto systems that thwart these policies. We already have crypto systems that thwart these policies.

The law is trying to act as if cryptography is a service provided by a company, but cryptography is just a mathematically-true fact. All they can do is compel companies to decrypt data that they can decrypt, and backdoor systems that they can backdoor. There is no stopping open source crypto, even if it has to be maintained anonymously.

[qualitative]

  cryptography is just a 
  mathematically-true fact

Sure, but it's research for and developed by humans, often with close monitoring and participation by uniformed government representatives and undercover plants presenting themselves as plainclothes academics and experts.

What if an unbreakable system was developed denovo, and not founded in the same primitives and principles that industry and military systems use?

Something that really has no backdoor.