Debate: no single analogy can carry AI governance, argue researchers
austinc3301 · x · 2026-09-24
jachiam0 argues that none of the analogies for AI — normal technology, industrial revolution, banking/finance — will hold, and society will need a fundamentally new conceptual, regulatory, and international security framework since AI is too many things at once. Replying, austinc3301 counters that many AI policy experts already do the more sophisticated work of dissecting which parts of each analogy transfer and which don't, progressively building the picture from many angles.
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