I don’t think path dependency is the right way of looking at it. I’d frame it rather differently:
We are doing a bunch of clown stuff that is holding back productivity improvements all the time. There is nothing about that is unique to AI. However, it’s possible that it will become especially apparent that we are erecting all these obstacles ourselves as we observe AI getting very productive in unregulated or otherwise functional sectors.
Absolutely, we should be dismantling the clown policies proactively, but it isn’t proactive with respect to AI particularly, it’s just that we should not have clown policies in the first place.
I don’t think path dependency is the right way of looking at it. I’d frame it rather differently:
We are doing a bunch of clown stuff that is holding back productivity improvements all the time. There is nothing about that is unique to AI. However, it’s possible that it will become especially apparent that we are erecting all these obstacles ourselves as we observe AI getting very productive in unregulated or otherwise functional sectors.
Absolutely, we should be dismantling the clown policies proactively, but it isn’t proactive with respect to AI particularly, it’s just that we should not have clown policies in the first place.