> It’s like everyone lost their collective mind and forgot the lessons of the past twenty years.

I think this has it backwards, and actually applies to every safety and security procedure in any field.

Only the experts ever cared about or learned the lessons. The CEOs never learned anything about security; it's someone else's problem. So there was nothing for AI peddlers to forget, they just found a gap in the armor of the "burdensome regulations" and are currently cramming as much as possible through it before it's closed up.