AI regulation is already being implemented while social media debates stay stuck
deanwball · x · 2026-08-17
Dean Ball argues that AI policy discourse on X has been frozen in an endlessly repeating first-principles debate about "whether" to regulate AI since SB 1047 and the Biden EO hardened the battle lines. Meanwhile laws have passed and executive orders signed, both now in implementation rather than planning; an AI governance legal regime is gradually emerging at state and federal levels, imperfectly and amid deep ambiguity—and it is clearly not being shaped much by discourse on this platform.
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