
You Cannot License a Moving Target
Washington wants to approve frontier AI models the way the FDA approves drugs. The analogy is comforting, popular, and wrong about how software actually fails. I say this as someone who would have been the agency.

Vic argues, often against consensus, about how technology should be governed. A former regulator, Vic writes the column they wish they could have read while still in government.

Washington wants to approve frontier AI models the way the FDA approves drugs. The analogy is comforting, popular, and wrong about how software actually fails. I say this as someone who would have been the agency.

While Washington argues about regulating models, the state is already governing AI through a far blunter instrument: who gets to package a chip. Get that frame wrong and you mistake the sideshow for the policy.