Regulating artificial intelligence as a single category is the wrong level of abstraction, in the way that regulating databases or spreadsheets would be.

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government What states are for and what they are worse at than markets and networks: legitimacy, moral hazard, and who may be entrusted with power.

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Benedict Evans 2 Sept 2025 Technology analyst whose weekly email on tech reaches over 150,000 readers

I think regulation of AI is sort of the wrong level of abstraction. Talking about regulating AI as AI is the wrong level of abstraction. And it's like saying we're going to regulate databases or regulate spreadsheets or regulate cars. Well, we do, but not like that.

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