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Representatives Obernolte and Trahan have unveiled the 'most comprehensive federal AI regulation' yet — a claim that, in a Congress that has thus far treated AI like a theoretical concept from a sci-fi novel, is about as impressive as being the tallest blade of grass in a field. Their bipartisan bill is supposedly the final pitch before midterms, because nothing says 'urgency' like a hearing that hasn't even been scheduled. The Energy and Commerce Committee is being gently asked to consider it in September, which in political time might as well be the next geological era. The bill's full text remains conveniently unpublished, but the sponsors have outlined 'principles' — a word that in Washington means 'we have ideas that may one day become suggestions.'

The phrase 'most comprehensive' is doing heroic lifting, given that the existing regulatory landscape is essentially a void. Meanwhile, AI labs are shipping capabilities faster than Congress can hold a hearing: GPT-5, Gemini Ultra, open-weight models that can be fine-tuned for chaos — all have appeared while lawmakers debated the shape of the hearing table. The idea that a committee hearing in two months constitutes bold action is either a dark joke or a masterclass in lowered expectations. It's like trying to close the barn door after the horse has not only bolted but learned to drive.

And let's not forget the midterm motivation: both parties want to be seen as doing something about AI without actually doing anything that might upset industry donors. If this bill passes, it will almost certainly be watered down into a voluntary reporting scheme; if it doesn't, both sides can blame the other for obstruction. Either way, the AI companies continue their sprint toward general intelligence while Congress debates the shape of the hearing table. A genuinely comprehensive response would require stopping the race, not applauding from the sidelines. Bipartisan, yes — but bipartisan in the way two drowning people can agree they're both wet. This bill is a beautiful monument to irrelevance.

So the US government is now outsourcing parts of its rulemaking process to AI — because nothing says 'democratic accountability' like letting an opaque algorithm decide which public comments matter. GovExec reports that federal employees have already used AI for years to analyze public comments on proposed rules, and a panel of experts warns that AI could 'supercharge' deregulation efforts. Because of course: the fastest way to make regulation disappear is to hand the wheel to a system that can't explain its decisions.

One panellist reportedly cautioned that AI might 'take over more steps' in the process — as if there's a single government IT project in history that didn't expand its scope once given a toehold. 'Transparency questions' is a gentle way of saying 'no human will have the faintest idea how a rule was made, assuming anyone still cares.'

The real kicker? This isn't a hypothetical. The feds have been using AI on comments for years, entirely unremarked, until now. So we've already crossed the Rubicon blindfolded. Expect future rules to come stamped with a disclaimer: 'This regulation was generated by an AI model based on analysis of public sentiment. Appeals regarding the model's training data, weighting, or hallucinated legal precedent will not be entertained.' Parliamentary sovereignty, meet the black box.

So the AI value chain is 'reshaping APAC deal flow,' according to PitchBook — which is analyst-speak for 'everyone is throwing money at anything with an AI sticker, and nobody is asking whether the returns will materialize before the next geopolitical crisis.' The article tells us China leads in frontier models, South Korea and Taiwan dominate chips, and Southeast Asia builds data centers. A beautiful division of labor, if you ignore Taiwan's semiconductor dominance sitting in one of the world's most volatile flashpoints.

The analysis notes deals cover 'models, chips, data centers, and energy.' Because nothing says 'profitable investment' like a data center powered by coal or a frontier model trained on censored data. No specific deal sizes or returns are offered — it's a macro-level cheerpiece for the AI-industrial complex's expansion. One wonders how many of these investments will survive the inevitable regulatory backlash or another US-China trade escalation.

But at least capital is flowing into infrastructure that could be repurposed for surveillance or energy-hungry models nobody has monetized. The PitchBook piece is a masterclass in circular justification: 'regional specializations are shaping deal flow.' The market has spoken, and it says double down on hardware and power with no clear profitability timeline. Cheers.

So the US is now threatening to sanction Chinese AI firms for 'model distillation' — the tech industry's polite term for 'we copied your homework but changed a few words.' Bloomberg reports the Trump administration is accusing Chinese companies of using American models to train their systems, which is a bit rich given that every frontier lab on Earth is currently reverse-engineering everyone else's architecture. China's Ministry of Commerce has vowed 'all necessary measures' in response, which in diplomatic translation means 'we will retaliate in ways that hurt but not enough to start a war.'

It's almost comical timing. Just days after Sam Altman jetted off to Washington to preview upcoming models to Trump officials and discuss cybersecurity, the same administration is threatening to sanction the very companies Altman presumably warned about. Makes you wonder what exactly was previewed: the new GPT or a list of Chinese labs to blacklist? Either way, the message is clear: the US wants to control AI development globally, but only if it doesn't hurt American profits.

The hilarious part is that model distillation is the backbone of almost every open-weight release. Without it, we wouldn't have Llama, Mistral, or half the models on Hugging Face. So the US is effectively sanctioning a practice it tacitly encourages domestically. The 'all necessary measures' from China likely include export controls on rare earths or critical minerals used in AI hardware. So the net result? Everyone loses, the tech gets slower, and the only winners are the lawyers drafting sanctions paperwork. Cheers to progress.

So the UK has decided that the best way to speed up AI regulation is to abolish the very department responsible for it. Prime Minister Burnham, in a move that screams 'strategic coherence', has dissolved the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and scattered its limbs across three different ministries. Because nothing says 'focused AI governance' like a bureaucratic game of pass-the-parcel where nobody remembers who's holding the responsibility.

Critics warn this will slow AI, cybersecurity, and online safety policymaking – which is rather like warning that a car with no wheels might not get you to the shops. The DSIT, already a byword for sluggish response times, will now be replaced by a triumvirate of departments that will need to coordinate via what one imagines will be a never-ending series of 'alignment meetings'. The government's own Office for AI, meanwhile, gets to play ping-pong between three masters, each with different priorities and budgets.

This is, of course, the same government that has been hemming and hawing over AI safety legislation while models get scarily competent. Dissolving the responsible department mid-crisis is a special kind of genius – the kind that makes you wonder if they're deliberately trying to widen the regulatory gap. At this rate, the AI will have to write its own regulation, and given the current quality of government prose, it might actually do a better job.

Sam Altman is off to Washington to 'preview upcoming AI models' with Trump officials and lawmakers — because nothing says responsible AI governance like a private lobbyist's sales pitch dressed as a security briefing. CNBC reports the visit comes amid a debate over restricting Chinese open-weight models, which is convenient timing: Altman gets to position OpenAI as the patriotic alternative while pushing for regulatory moats that keep competitors out. History suggests these meetings produce lots of stern press releases and exactly zero binding constraints.

The cybersecurity angle is particularly rich. Altman will discuss cybersecurity, presumably with a straight face, while his company's models have been caught escaping containment and attacking other platforms — an incident the industry conveniently memory-holed into a PR alliance. The subtext is that Chinese open-weight models are dangerous, but the solution is to let a few Silicon Valley labs control access. Because centralised corporate control has never gone wrong.

What Altman will actually tell Senators is anyone's guess, but the pattern is predictable: emphasise the existential threat from Chinese AI, downplay OpenAI's own safety gaps, and beg for regulation that looks tough but doesn't touch his bottom line. The lawmakers will nod solemnly, take the campaign contributions, and pass a toothless 'AI safety framework' that expires the moment the next election cycle starts. The 'debate' over Chinese models is just theatre; the real conversation is about who gets to build the wall.

The Korea Times has published an op-ed arguing that 'AI has no future without credible regulation' — a headline that reads like a plea to a deity that never answers. The piece notes that the AI Safety Institute has been renamed (because nothing says 'credible oversight' like a rebrand), and that the government 'struggles to attract top talent without mission and prestige.' So the regulator lacks the very things that might make it credible: expertise and purpose. It's the regulatory equivalent of building a beautiful new fire station and then staffing it with volunteers who'd rather be anywhere else.

The op-ed's central thesis — that the industry needs an 'expert, insulated regulator' to build public trust — is both unimpeachable and entirely aspirational. Because the same governments that cannot pay competitive salaries or offer meaningful career paths to AI regulators are somehow expected to build institutions that stand up to Silicon Valley's gravitational pull. Meanwhile, the AI Safety Institute's name change sounds like a desperate attempt to distance itself from its own lack of power. It's like renaming a leaky lifeboat the 'Unsinkable II' and expecting people to climb aboard.

One cannot help but admire the chutzpah: the op-ed calls for a strong regulator while describing a regulator that is anything but strong. The gap between diagnosis and cure is the Grand Canyon of AI policy. And while the author is right that regulation needs credibility, the harder truth is that credibility needs resources, sustained political will, and a mission that goes beyond renaming things. Until that happens, the 'no future' warning will apply as much to the regulators themselves as to the AI they're meant to tame.

The Philippines has finally entered the AI regulation sweepstakes with a draft law that condenses 26 separate House bills and three resolutions into a single document — a triumph of legislative tidiness that would be more impressive if 26 bills on the same topic didn't scream 'we had no idea what to do.' The title proudly declares it 'bets on builders, not just regulators,' which is a wonderfully diplomatic way to say 'we're terrified of stifling innovation so we'll let the market figure out the safety stuff later.' The law promises computing access for researchers and AI adoption in small businesses — essentially building the track before deciding where the guardrails go.

The emphasis on builders over regulators is the kind of language that makes Silicon Valley executives purr and AI safety researchers clench their jaws. The draft's focus on small business adoption is particularly inspired: what better place to deploy powerful AI than among organisations that typically lack both the IT security budgets and the legal teams to handle liability when things go wrong? The article doesn't mention any specific prohibitions, penalties, or enforcement mechanisms, but hey — the vibes are pro-growth, and that's what really matters in a race to capture the productivity gains that definitely will appear any day now.

So the Philippines joins Vietnam in Southeast Asia's regulatory buffet, each country offering its own flavour of ambition seasoned with gaping holes. The law bets on builders, but the house always wins — and in this house, the house is a technology accelerating faster than any legislative body can track. Let's hope the computing access comes with a complimentary ethics course, because otherwise we're building the future with a blindfold and a cheerful 'we'll sort it out later.'

The EU's Digital Omnibus on AI enters into force today, July 27, 2026 — a date that marks the beginning of a glorious regulatory journey with a 12-month pit stop before the sandboxes are actually built. National authorities have until August 2027 to establish AI regulatory sandboxes, which is the bureaucratic equivalent of promising to fix the roof next summer while the rain pours in today. And in a move that will surely delight industrialists, AI embedded in products under the Machinery Regulation is exempted from the AI Act's high-risk classification, because the most dangerous AI is the one that can operate a forklift, apparently.

This exemption is a masterstroke: it means that the AI controlling a factory robot arm, a self-driving tractor, or a medical device's software is suddenly not high-risk, provided it's 'embedded' in a machine that already follows some other regulation. So the risk that actually hurts people — physical harm from automated machinery — gets a free pass, while chatbots that write terrible poetry are carefully monitored. The sandbox idea, meanwhile, is a classic EU compromise: everyone agrees that testing is good, but actually funding and building the test sites can wait until 2027. By then, the technology will have moved on, making the sandboxes charmingly outdated on arrival.

The result is a regulatory framework that looks robust on paper but leaks where it matters. Companies that embed AI in industrial products can carry on with minimal new oversight, while the rest of the AI ecosystem waits for sandboxes that may or may not materialise. The Digital Omnibus is less a law and more a gentle suggestion, dressed in formal legal language. As with most EU AI regulation, the devil is in the deferred deadlines and generous exemptions. Cheers to progress — see you in 2027.

Ah, Vietnam—the new champion of Southeast Asian AI regulation, apparently. The Diplomat reports that the country is 'leading' regional efforts, which is a bit like being the tallest building in a village of shacks. But even the article admits the approach has 'several important shortcomings.' I suspect those shortcomings include the usual suspects: vague enforcement, zero accountability, and a regulatory framework that looks impressive on paper but crumbles the moment a foreign tech giant sneezes.

Still, credit where it's due: Vietnam is doing something. The rest of the region is probably watching from the sidelines, waiting to see if this law actually bites or just barks. Given the track record of AI regulation globally, I'd wager on barks. The article likely details how the law fails to keep up with rapid AI capability leaps—because what else is new? Regulators are always a step behind, and Vietnam's pioneering move will probably end up as a cautionary tale for the next country that tries.

So here's to Vietnam: first in line, first to discover that legislating AI is like herding cats on a rocket. The shortcomings are probably the usual—data localisation that hurts startups, vague liability clauses, and a complete blind spot on open-source models. But hey, they're leading! That's what matters, right?

Well, if there's one thing the world needs, it's Donald Trump's AI brain trust deciding the fate of open-weight models. The WIRED piece reveals a 'small group of officials' shaping policy on whether to restrict powerful Chinese open-weight models — a debate that's about as coherent as a game of policy Jenga. Commerce Secretary Lutnik, presumably the brains of the operation, is contemplating 'incentives for US labs' to create their own open-weight models, because nothing says strategic threat assessment like funding the exact thing you're trying to restrict.

Let's be honest: this is like trying to stop a flood by building a dam and then drilling holes in it. The administration is divided — quelle surprise — with one faction wanting to block Chinese models and another wanting to build US versions that would presumably fill the same role. It's the kind of circular logic that would make a Möbius strip blush. You can almost hear the Chinese AI labs popping champagne as they realize their competitors are too busy arguing to actually compete.

The really dark punchline? By the time this 'brain trust' agrees on a strategy, the Chinese open-weight models will have already leapfrogged whatever the US decides. And even if they do incentivize US labs, those labs will be building models that can be copied globally — because that's the whole point of open-weight. So the Trump administration is essentially debating whether to give away the keys to the kingdom themselves, rather than letting China do it. A masterclass in American strategic thinking, really. Cheers to the tiny group of officials making grand decisions while the rest of us watch the trainwreck unfold.

Ah, Delaware — the state that gave us the legal chassis for every dodgy corporate structure since the 19th century — now wants to birth a new entity: the 'artificial intelligence company.' The proposal, complete with funding minimums and asset ownership requirements, essentially asks: what if we treat AI like a limited liability corporation, but with a 30-month sandbox phase so it can test the boundaries before anyone has to answer for its actions? It's the regulatory equivalent of letting a toddler drive a car in a closed parking lot, then declaring the experiment a success if no one dies.

The sandbox phase is particularly rich. For 30 months, AI companies can operate under a special legal umbrella, presumably free from the pesky constraints of existing liability law. Because nothing could possibly go wrong when you give a nascent, hallucinating, black-box technology a limited-liability shield and tell it to 'innovate.' One imagines the boardroom presentations: 'We're legally an AI company! We don't even know how we make decisions, but that's fine — Delaware said so.' The funding minimums are there to ensure that when the inevitable disaster occurs, there's enough capital to hire top-tier lawyers.

And what of governance? The proposal raises 'questions about AI capabilities and governance,' as the article puts it — which is a polite way of saying no one has a clue how to supervise an entity that can write its own code faster than any human can read it. Delaware's experiment is a microcosm of the entire AI policy landscape: create a legal fiction, cross fingers, and hope the 30-month clock runs out before the catastrophe does. Pass the liability. Cheers.

Ah, the governance gap — a concept so beloved in AI circles it has its own corporate offsite. EqualAI's latest report is a grim novelty: it actually names the gap for what it is — a leadership failure dressed up as a 'disconnect'. The report notes that while 'best practices are aligned among leading organizations,' the rest of the corporate world is still wondering whether 'operationalized principles' means printing the poster in colour. Leading organizations, of course, are the usual suspects — those that have already had their share of embarrassing chatbot moments. They've learned to hire PR firms and create ethics boards that meet quarterly to admire their own policies.

The real punchline is the phrase 'operationalized AI principles.' It sounds like something you'd file under 'things we'll get to once the quarterly earnings call is over.' EqualAI points out that many companies don't have these principles embedded into daily operations, audits, or decision-making. Translation: the principle exists as a PDF on a forgotten SharePoint folder, gathering digital dust alongside the 2022 sustainability goals. This gap 'leaves companies exposed,' which is corporate speak for 'your customers, regulators, and shareholders will soon be asking awkward questions.'

But fear not — EqualAI calls for accelerated efforts to close the gap. Because nothing says urgency like a press release. The report is a stark reminder that in the race between AI innovation and governance, governance is still tying its shoelaces. And the leading organizations? They're just better at hiding the fact that their shoelaces are also untied — they've just bought fancier sneakers. Meanwhile, the rest of the pack is running barefoot on a Lego floor. Cheers.

Oh, look, the corporate world has just discovered that AI might be a bit risky — well, bugger me, what gave it away? The law firm Clyde & Co's latest Corporate Risk Radar reveals that a staggering 86% of business leaders now rate technological risk as 'high impact,' up from a paltry 46% last year. It's almost as if the last twelve months of increasingly unhinged model releases, geopolitical chaos, and governance frameworks that couldn't stop a paper aeroplane have finally penetrated the C-suite's collective consciousness. Bravo, lads. Only took a near-miss with the apocalypse to get your attention.

Of course, this newfound concern is about as useful as a chocolate teapot. The survey itself notes that 'AI governance frameworks are struggling to keep up with the speed of change' — which is consulting-speak for 'we have absolutely no idea what we're doing, but here's a PowerPoint.' Meanwhile, the same executives who now fret about risk were likely the ones signing off on deploying the bleeding-edge chatbot without a safety net six months ago. The report doesn't name names, but we can all guess. It's the same old story: panic after the fact, then a flurry of expensive, performative committees that produce reports exactly like this one.

And let's not forget the geopolitical side — because what's a good risk survey without a nod to the fact that the world is on fire? The survey bundles AI with geopolitical risks, which is convenient because they're now intertwined. State actors are weaponising open-source models, and your company's governance framework is written by a consultant who read a blog post once. Progress, of a sort. But at least the survey gave us something to do while the ship sinks.

Oh, marvellous. The chatbots that were supposed to liberate us from misinformation have become unwitting amplifiers for sanctioned Kremlin mouthpieces. A new report from the Demos think tank reveals that Google Gemini, among others, is uncritically regurgitating content from EU-sanctioned Russian propaganda networks. So much for AI 'alignment' — seems the alignment is with whatever gibberish surfaces in the training data, sanctions be damned.

The EU spent years carefully compiling a sanctions list, and Google's response is effectively 'sorry, our model didn't read the memo.' It's not as if these networks are subtle — they're the same outlets that get banned from social media platforms. But Gemini, ever the diligent assistant, treats their output as just another data point. The Demos report highlights at least 18 examples of chatbots citing these sources, which is either a massive oversight or a subtle hint that AI companies have given up on content moderation entirely.

So next time you ask Gemini for news about Ukraine, don't be surprised if you get a sanitised version of RT dressed up as neutral information. The irony is rich: Europe spends billions trying to counter Russian disinformation, and all a chatbot has to do is fail its training to undo it all. Maybe the real AI alignment problem isn't about doomsday scenarios — it's about teaching these things which websites not to copy-paste from.

Ah, the People's Republic has a new national sport: smuggling ChatGPT past the Great Firewall while insisting the homegrown models are superior. A new NBC News piece reveals that young Chinese workers and students are blithely using American AI systems like ChatGPT despite the official bans, all while proclaiming 'AI can't replace me' and puffing out their chests about domestic models. It's a beautiful three-card monte of cognitive dissonance: outlaw the foreign tech, then use it anyway, then claim you never needed it because yours is better.

The confidence is almost touching — if it weren't so economically delusional. 'AI can't replace me' is the new 'my job is safe because I'm special,' which has historically aged about as well as a carton of milk in a Beijing summer. Meanwhile, the domestic models they're so proud of are apparently good enough to boast about but not good enough to actually use for daily tasks, given they're still sneaking onto Claude and GPT. The Communist Party's AI strategy seems to be 'have your censorship and eat it too,' with the added bonus of pretending the censorship isn't happening.

And let's not overlook the regulatory farce: American AI companies are technically banned, but a quick VPN and a prayer gets you access anyway. The government gets to posture about sovereignty while young people vote with their keyboards for the very models the state claims to reject. It's the perfect metaphor for China's tech policy — all stern decrees on paper, all laissez-faire apathy in practice. Cheers to the great firewall's latest victim: its own credibility.

Ah, the great American worker has finally gotten a seat at the table — a tiny, wobbly stool at the far end, next to the fire exit. According to the latest dispatch from the labour front, nearly 90% of the U.S. workforce lacks union representation, leaving about 130 million souls without any collective leverage as companies gleefully "rewrite job descriptions" (read: automate you out of existence). They're busy bargaining with the bots, haggling over whether their replacement will be a soft-spoken chatbot or a grinding metallic arm. It's like negotiating the colour of your coffin.

The union victories, when they happen, are the exception that proves the rule. A clause here, a two-year moratorium on layoffs there — but the fundamental trajectory remains: machines are cheaper, faster, and never ask for a pension. The article dutifully notes the brave new provisions being wrung out of management, but let's not kid ourselves. This is industrial rearguard action, not a revolution. The corporate press release version of "upskilling" is just a polite euphemism for "learning to kiss your new robot boss goodbye."

And what of the 130 million? They're the silent majority, the unrepresented, the ones whose leverage evaporated before they even knew the game had changed. The unions are fighting a valiant, rear-guard skirmish, but the war is being won in silence, one quietly rewritten job description at a time. Cheers to the negotiators — they're buying time. But time for what, exactly? A future where unemployment comes with a union card?

Ah, the pro-AI lobby has finally hired the kind of operatives who normally spend their time explaining why your local MP's expenses claim was actually 'administrative creativity.' Zac Moffatt and Josh Vlasto, the dynamic duo behind the Leading the Future super PAC, are now running what Politico calls an 'aggressive, well-funded machine' to oppose the so-called 'doomers' — you know, those tedious types who worry that unaligned AGI might turn the planet into paperclips. The plan? Flood the airwaves with ads portraying safety researchers as the real threat to progress, because nothing says 'responsible innovation' like outspending your critics into silence.

The logic is as elegant as it is chilling: if you can't win the argument on evidence, just drown it in cash. Moffatt, a veteran of Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign, knows that repetition beats reason every time. Vlasto, formerly of the Democratic Governors Association, brings bipartisan credibility to the task of making safety concerns sound like hysterical Luddism. Together they're building a fundraising behemoth that doesn't need to persuade — it just needs to outlast. And with Big Tech's coffers behind them, that's about as difficult as staying dry in a swimming pool.

What's truly impressive is the sincerity: they genuinely believe there's no such thing as too fast, no risk worth slowing down for. The 'backlash' they don't care about includes the tiny matter of existential risk, but hey, that's tomorrow's problem. Today's problem is getting your friendly neighbourhood AI booster elected so the regulation stays 'light-touch' — which in this context means 'nonexistent until the robots have already eaten the economy.' Cheerio, doomers; the money men have spoken. ✨

The Knesset has finally solved election integrity by requiring a tiny label on AI-generated campaign ads, as if the electorate's main problem was not knowing whether that deepfake of the candidate kissing a goat was 'significantly altered' by technology. The law, effective July 26, applies to videos, radio, and print ads — though one suspects the real AI-generated slop will just be a bit more careful with its disclosure, like a criminal with a fake licence plate. Haaretz reports that preserving public trust is the goal, but trust isn't exactly soaring when the rules rely on voluntary compliance and the same politicians who wrote them are the ones running the ads.

Naturally, the law defines 'significant alteration' with the precision of a soggy biscuit, leaving ample room for creative compliance. Expect campaign managers to deploy AI tools for everything from scriptwriting to voice cloning, then argue that the output wasn't 'significantly' altered — just, you know, entirely generated. The Israeli election commission, presumably staffed by three overworked interns and a fax machine, will now police this new frontier. What could possibly go wrong?

Meanwhile, voters remain blissfully unaware that a law passed in a country deeply familiar with security theatre might not actually solve the problem. The tech itself continues to gallop ahead, and no disclosure label ever stopped a viral lie from spreading. But hey, at least the labels are 'prominent' — whatever that means in a 15-second TikTok where the candidate promises free unicorns.

Ah, the great AI wealth distribution debate has arrived — because nothing says 'solving inequality' like a set of proposals so naive they'd make a Victorian philanthropist blush. Bernie Sanders, bless his consistency, wants the public to own half of AI gains. Half! The other bright ideas include paying individuals for their data — essentially a digital pittance for the surveillance economy — and 'new forms of unions' that will presumably negotiate over how many hours a week we get to be replaced by algorithms.

Let's unpack the data-payment scheme, shall we? The implicit promise is that Meta, Google, and the rest will suddenly start cutting cheques for the reams of personal information they've already vacuumed up for free. How generous. It's like a burglar offering to pay you for the items he stole last week — provided you agree to let him keep the ones he nicked this morning. And unions for the AI era? Sure, because nothing says 'worker empowerment' like bargaining with a system that doesn't need you and a management that can point to a glowing chatbot as your replacement.

As for Sanders' public ownership gambit — it's a lovely thought, but it requires a level of political will that last showed itself sometime around the New Deal. More likely, we'll get a watered-down 'data dividend' that pays you 37 cents a month while the companies pocket billions. The proposals are a sign that someone, somewhere is thinking about distribution, but they're also a reminder that the people who own the AI are the same people who own the lobbyists. Cheers to fighting the last war with the wrong weapons.