While I agree with your premise as a concept, the real question is how? Even if policymakers were made aware, how does one scale up government capacity to affect the Internet? It is a default of government to move slowly, almost glacially. Contrast this to the super information highway, which thrives off of open source, high-speed solutions. With AI, the bar of competence in order to circumvent existing blocks or protections has been further lowered, leading to some pretty empowered script kiddies.
The result feels like the US government of the mid 1800's trying to assert its authority over the Wild West, or China of the last century industrializing so fast that entire blocks of the regulatory code were missed.
While I agree with your premise as a concept, the real question is how? Even if policymakers were made aware, how does one scale up government capacity to affect the Internet? It is a default of government to move slowly, almost glacially. Contrast this to the super information highway, which thrives off of open source, high-speed solutions. With AI, the bar of competence in order to circumvent existing blocks or protections has been further lowered, leading to some pretty empowered script kiddies.
The result feels like the US government of the mid 1800's trying to assert its authority over the Wild West, or China of the last century industrializing so fast that entire blocks of the regulatory code were missed.
Who can keep up, and how?