Every major technology — cars, planes, the internet — took decades before the right regulatory moment arrived. Regulating AI now, before we even understand what it is, risks locking in the wrong answers at the worst possible time.
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Sinofsky begins by tracing how every major 20th-century technology evolved for decades before meaningful regulation arrived — not because regulators were asleep, but because the technology itself wasn't yet legible [1] — Steven Sinofsky "Cars took 60 years to get safety rules: It took roughly 60 years of automotive evolution before seatbelts and airbags became upstream desig…" 04:16 . Cars are his sharpest example: it took roughly 60 years before seatbelts and airbags became standard design criteria, and demanding them from Henry Ford while he was still trying to make engines run would have been absurd. The same pattern holds for antitrust law — vertical integration rules in oil, film, and broadcasting only became coherent once those industries matured enough to understand what monopolistic harm actually looked like. Sinofsky then turns this lens on AI: today's systems are simultaneously being called the most intelligent things ever built and unreliable hallucination machines, and those claims can't both be true at the same time. Social media went through the same contradictory discourse — first a toy, then a government-toppling force, then a mind-control device. The lesson is not that regulation is wrong, but that the story of regulation is always told in hindsight, projecting false clarity onto a messy, unpredictable process of technological emergence. A technical glitch briefly interrupts the flow but Sinofsky resumes without missing a beat.
It took roughly 60 years of automotive evolution before seatbelts and airbags became upstream design criteria — illustrating why premature regulation stifles innovation.
The precautionary principle sounds sensible but leads to one outcome: you freeze the technology at whatever stage the government is most comfortable with. If applied to the internet in the 1990s, we'd all still be using Yahoo and AOL with no video, no audio, no commerce.
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