Nina Schick: public distrusts regulators as much as AI labs — nobody can 'pace' AI
NinaDSchick · x · 2026-09-14
Author Nina Schick responds to the safety camp's push to hand AI control to governments, pointing out an overlooked reality: polls show the public distrusts regulators and politicians just as much as the labs themselves.
The result is a dangerous stalemate: the public believes AI is dangerous (despite mostly never having used it), yet trusts no one to 'pace' it. The quoted thread by Andrew Curran adds that many people feel they've never lived under a government that wasn't adversarial to them — so handing "the most powerful technology that has ever existed" to any government won't sell.
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