203. Software As Part of Everything Is Regulated…As Part of Everything

The race to declare the need to distinctly regulate AI software fails to acknowledge all that is regulated and how we got to software opportunity in the first place.

Originally posted on twitter.

Dr. Fred Brooks at the official introduction of the IBM System/360, a family of six compatible computers, in 1964. He had been a champion of enabling programs written for one 360 model to run on the others, which was uncommon at the time. Brooks was instrumental in forming the basis of programming/computer science education,…