SITUATION EXPLAINED: What can the history of encryption teach us about regulating AI?

We asked @kristianstout what policymakers should learn from that decade.

"In the '90s, there was a legislative effort to put export controls on encryption, on math equations, which is essentially what AI is at its root."

"What it ended up doing was driving a lot of our innovative researchers offshore. Switzerland and Israel became frontier labs for encryption for a good 10 years."

"IBM did really well... companies with really good budgets to pay compliance lawyers survived. Startups that couldn't afford that had a lot of trouble starting up."

"We drove a lot of our innovative researchers offshore, and then we ended up having to backpedal because everybody else started eating our lunch on encryption."