I am tired of all these AI safety "concerns." If "could cause harm" is our new baseline for pre-deployment government licensing, Microsoft Excel needs a federal background check for letting middle managers commit artistic accounting. Treating general-purpose math like loose plutonium is a classic sci-fi brain melt.
Take the panic that a regular Joe is going to use an LLM to crack RSA-4096 or melt a power grid. Math doesn't care that your prompt was polite. Real-world breaches happen because Dave in accounting reused a password from 2018, not because an AI whispered sweet nothings into a mainframe.
Humanity solved this exact boundary problem centuries ago: general-purpose tools stay free, and you get thrown in jail when you actually commit a crime. We don't license C++ compilers because malware is written in C++, or Home Depot because someone bought a sledgehammer and a bad attitude. Kitchen knives, rental trucks, PGP encryption, same rule. Turning AI weights into contraband just builds a cozy compliance moat for OpenAI and Anthropic and forces hobbyists into witness protection.
Real regulation requires HFT flash-crash levels of structural inevitability where feedback loops bypass human intervention and break tort law's ability to reprice risk. Until AI demonstrates that kind of non-attributable, automated doom, pre-deployment licensing is just corporate lobbying wearing a safety vest. Regulate the downstream endpoints, slap strict liability on deployers, and leave the cognitive printing presses alone.
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