The one time in which I saw Juergen Schmidhuber in perfect nervous control, "coolness" they may say westward, was when he replied to one member of the audience, "The same observation was made when they invented fire: oh, it's dangerous. But in the end, now it's here (shrugh)".
There is a proposal in the USA to restrict LLM access. This will only have us depend more and more on open source models and their providers. And cause a drain of research in those areas in which it will be impeded.