I fear government intervention would not stop the progress of AI, it would only replace some negatives with others. The cat's out of the bag, people will experiment and soon we may have AIs like this running on home computers -- I know that's what I will be experimenting with, unless we get some really draconian laws about what I can and cannot do with my own computer. And if the US government outlaws AIs or something, are we just going to watch as other nations capitalize on the advantages while we stagnate?