Those advances -- musket to Gatling gun, calculator to CPU -- are great examples of what our laws and customs must adapt to continuously.
In those cases, we could draw on analogy on things that were already possible for organizations - a machine gun is a one man army, a cpu does the work of a room of accountants. We have never had a Gatling gun for cogent paragraphs before, but we have contact centers full of scammers and propagandists.
A productive approach to controlling AI could start with considering our controls for these organizations (and how to make them work), and then address the concentration afforded by AI. Exceptionalism about what AI can do is a distraction.
In those cases, we could draw on analogy on things that were already possible for organizations - a machine gun is a one man army, a cpu does the work of a room of accountants. We have never had a Gatling gun for cogent paragraphs before, but we have contact centers full of scammers and propagandists.
A productive approach to controlling AI could start with considering our controls for these organizations (and how to make them work), and then address the concentration afforded by AI. Exceptionalism about what AI can do is a distraction.