'We Have a Right to Compute': Critics Warn US AI Regulation Follows Nuclear Energy's Playbook
nptacek · x · 2026-11-13
Security researcher Thomas Ptacek amplified a post declaring "we have a right to compute, we must fight this," citing an essay by Adam Thierer. Thierer argues America is replaying the policy playbook that stalled nuclear energy against AI: first whip up a full-blown techno-panic among the public, press and policymakers — a step he says has been successfully completed by an EA-funded coalition of "fear entrepreneurs" — and now, with a new lawsuit underway, the playbook's later stages are in motion. He warns AI could lose decades to overregulation just as nuclear did.
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