Is AI regulation a one-way ratchet? Saxe and kuza55 debate governance under uncertainty
kuza55 · x · 2026-10-12
Joshua Saxe argues that positions across the AI safety debate can't be falsified because the needed data hasn't arrived, so we should build agile AI institutions optimized for multiple possible futures. kuza55 replies that the Jensen (Huang) view is bleaker: regulation is basically impossible to roll back — a one-way ratchet within our lifetime. A sharp exchange on whether AI governance is reversible and how institutions should handle deep uncertainty.
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