[kevincox]

I hate to say it, but I don't think it can be stopped. Stopping "bad actors" from using guns, or distributing drugs has a sliver of hope as they do these things to the general public so can physically be intercepted. But even then enforcement has been largely unsuccessful.

Stopping people from using AI which is something that they can trivially download and do on their own private compute is simply infeasible. We would need to lock all computing behind government control to have any hope. That is clearly to me too high a price to pay. Even then current hardware will be amassed that doesn't have this lock-down.

So I think the right approach here is to not worry about regulating the AI to prevent it from doing bad things, we should just regulate the bad things themselves.

However I do think there is also room for some light regulation around certification. If we can make meaningful progress on AI Alignment and safety it may make sense to require some sort of "AI license". But this is just to avoid naive people making mistakes, it won't stop malicious people from causing intentional harm.