Technically it's just lip service and nothing of the sort is ever going to happen any time soon, but it's still nice to see people speaking up
this post was submitted on 22 Sep 2026
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we can do two things at once
pass laws preventing companies from making LLMs that do things that LLMs categorically cannot do, but that LLM companies claim LLMs can do for marketing reasons
arrest CEOs who break that law (which will be difficult)
we do not need to, for example, consider any present or future societal impacts of AI (on the environment, on the labor market, on deskilling, on disinformation...) besides it one day getting Too Smart™ and deciding to kill us all, which we take it as given that it will be able to do
The problem is that there is no "we" here. There is us, the people, and them, the legislators.
At the federal level, I'd be surprised if there were ANY federal legislator that isn't invested in GenAI in a significant way and using their classified briefings in order to make insider trades.
Our only power is local, and locally at least, the people are acting. (Specifically on the problem of data centers and Flock cameras.)