Right, I'm not saying that they would be regulated, but rather the provider of the instrument, and the market adoption of it.

Take the emotions he experienced after the event: "Who do I talk to, how do I undo this, what do I do" etc., and the fact that he's met with a wall of silence from Anthropic.

Perhaps there needs be more concerted preparation, guidance, direction and less trial and error for how society adopts it.

The imperfect comparison that sometimes comes up is to that of nuclear power, where international regulation and guidance quickly was adopted. I'm not necessarily endorsing the literal comparison, but an attitude of "well, let's just see how people choose to use nuclear power" would have yielded a significantly different world, I'm sure.