243. Government(s) Controlling AI Sounds Safer, But…

There’s a history of the US government controlling technology coupled with abuse of that technology, and this pattern is demonstrated by encryption and cryptography technology.

This post is a parable. I tell the story of the long history of the government looking to regulate a core technology—encryption—as a way of looking at what many are either asking the government to do or more recently what members of Congress are insisting the government must do with respect to artificial intelligence.

Comparing today with any technology…