> For example, the only effective way to get an AI not to talk about Bryan Lunduke is to have an external layer that scans for his name in the output of an AI, if found, stops the session and prints an error message instead.

> If you're willing to build systems around it (like we do with people) to limit it's side effects and provide sanity checks,

I don't think that comparison holds up. We do build systems around people, but people also have internal filters, and most are able to use them to avoid having to interact with the external ones. You seemed to state that AI's don't (can't?) have working internal filters and rely on external ones.

Imagine if everyone did whatever they wanted all the time and cops had to go around physically corralling literally everyone at all times to maintain something vaguely resembling "order." That would be more like a world filled with animals than people, and even animals have a bit more reasoning than that. That's where we are with AI, apparently.