A no-rules approach to AI is mad politics and worse policy

"Let it rip" is a dead end

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October 11, 2026 - 11:31 AM

Who can blame MAGA for wishing it were still early 2025, when Donald Trump was fresh off an election win, back in the White House and relatively popular with voters? One place where time has stood still, though, is artificial-intelligence policy. The technology has advanced ferociously, and is now launching cyber-attacks and solving reams of problems that have confounded the best human mathematicians. Yet…

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