Rand Paul just shot down Kennedy's AI kill switch bill, saying "we don't base policy on fiction."
His argument: tech never causes permanent unemployment. New tech = new jobs. Always has.
And yeah, historically he's right. Electricity didn't kill the economy. The internet didn't either.
But AI isn't electricity. It's not even close.
This is the first tech that's supposed to outthink us. Not assist us. Replace our thinking.
And the wildest part? Modern AI was pure sci-fi like 5 years ago. Now it's rewriting code, running strategies, making decisions.
Fiction becomes reality faster than policy can keep up.
Maybe a kill switch sounds paranoid. Or maybe it's the one thing we'll wish we had when it's too late to build one.
His argument: tech never causes permanent unemployment. New tech = new jobs. Always has.
And yeah, historically he's right. Electricity didn't kill the economy. The internet didn't either.
But AI isn't electricity. It's not even close.
This is the first tech that's supposed to outthink us. Not assist us. Replace our thinking.
And the wildest part? Modern AI was pure sci-fi like 5 years ago. Now it's rewriting code, running strategies, making decisions.
Fiction becomes reality faster than policy can keep up.
Maybe a kill switch sounds paranoid. Or maybe it's the one thing we'll wish we had when it's too late to build one.