Critics slam AI ban bill's medical exemption: anything that can make drugs can make poisons
TinfoilTricorn · x · 2026-11-09
The author argues the medical exemption in the AI ban bill is incoherent: any model capable of producing a helpful drug can also produce a deadly one, and what heals one person may kill another.
He contends human-in-the-loop concerns could be fixed with a simple script, and that fine-tunes, model merges, or any weight improvements would bypass restrictions anyway. His position: Congress should avoid prior restraint and stick to existing cybercrime and criminal-enterprise laws, claiming the ban movement would factually kill more people than it protects.
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