He’s as likely to get something done as anyone else. When is The Pope convening his conference?
In other news, Speaker Johnson says they’re waiting for “direction from industry” on any regulation. {{ LOL }}
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/13/ai-safety-congress-law-mike-johnson
{{ Johnson added to CNN that he would prefer AI company leaders to take a leadership role and responsibility for ensuring the safety of their products, rather than pushing Congress to implement rules. }}
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Of course. Because that worked so well with Boeing. And Lehman Bros. And Volkswagen. And Enron. And …
Since I am from broadcasting here’s one:
In 1926 the courts wisely decided that the Commerce Dept did not have authority to regulate radio. For the next year anybody could start broadcasting. Existing stations could jump frequencies to more popular ones, you could double, triple your power or more. By 1927 it was chaos and the FRC (Federal Radio Commission) was born, predecessor to the FCC. And suddenly, with regulation, the chaos ended, the incentives for bad actors to act badly disappeared, and the broadcasting industry took off. Weird, that.
The regulatory policy in the US by the 1990’s effectively turned Boeing into a state sponsored monopoly, at least domestically. The cultural problems that ensued are a result of a business that knew little in the way of competitive threats and an incestuous relationship with govt that made it almost self policing.
It’s exactly what we should avoid with AI. The goal should be to foster steep competition and hold bad actors accountable both civilly and criminally.
Enron and Lehman are irrelevant examples. They are simply the consequence of poor risk management and or where fraud occurred, people went to prison. Post 2008, we have seen some of the strongest regulatory provisions in the banking industry. Silicon Valley Bank still failed.
Great meme on FB last night discussing turning to Charles after the No Kings marches.
Wasn’t there a law passed in 1981 outlawing regulation of any sort? LOL Or was that only popular opining.