While I like the sentiment, regulation is helpful in most areas, at least to some small extent. I’m a huge advocate for drug legalization and harm reduction, but I don’t think that making meth freely available at CVS would be a boon to society in any way… As a chemist that knows how easy it is to manufacture several nerve gases from Home Depot chemicals, im also glad that information is at least not freely available and distributed to anyone who has a grudge against, let’s say, a former teacher.

If everyone was a fair actor and behaved in good faith, I agree let’s just see where this AI train leads, full speed ahead. But at risk of sounding like the “wake up sheeple” guy, there’s a lot of people already that are being harmed by their own inability to see the damage that new technologies are having on them (do you really think TikTok is a better use of people’s time than whatever they were doing before it?), and not everyone is as farsighted as most of us on this sub