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It’s almost comically absurd that some of the politicians most determined to throttle the progress of AI were born into a world where the cutting edge of computing was a room-filling behemoth the size of a modest apartment—1,600 square feet of blinking lights, spinning tape reels, and vacuum tubes that could, at best, crank out arithmetic like an overgrown abacus. These same people, whose formative years involved machines that couldn’t even spell “artificial intelligence,” now presume to dictate the pace and boundaries of systems that write code, diagnose disease, and generate novel scientific hypotheses in seconds. The gulf between the technology of their childhood and the technology they’re trying to kneecap is so vast it borders on the farcical: it’s like asking someone who once rode a horse-drawn carriage to set the speed limits for interstellar travel. Every aspect of this post was generated with #Ai See less