And China will slow down too? Because China becoming economically dominant will cause everything you fear. While I think that might already be inevitable, I see no benefit whatsoever to regulating AI research. Deployments, sure, and start with Meta, Google, Palantir, Flock, and all the credit agencies and see how it goes. I'm sure I missed some, but I see no societal value in building the Torment Panopticon.