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but that's the problem, it never would be in place. we knew the risk of lead poisoning before lead was put into fuels. we knew that smog was a biproduct of high concentrations of burning anything.
citygas existed before petroleum, London was dense with smog 100 years before the first car. "Miasma Lung" was a thing, we understood it. but it was ignored because the East India Trading Company had a conglomerate that had the king's ear and coin purse.
why do you think it's not any different today. in 250 years, nothing has changed. the same people that were a conglomerate in England spread with colonisation, made beurocracy a staple of business.
all such a law would do is restrict educational research by independents and individuals, while companies continued to use it, to worse and worse outcomes without punishment, as for the same reason petroleum is a issue.
85% of petroleum use is for commercial traffic, NOT private. ships, trucks, commercial airplanes and manufacturing.
85% of AI usage is by companies pressing their employees to use it and companies deploying it to replace previously efficient human workflows with innapropriate workflows with LLMs bumbling through it...
or outright using it where scripts or simple logic gates would work. the problem is and always has been a lack of control over businesses and billionaires. plain and simple.