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5 years is incredibly optimistic. Congress usually takes at least 10 years to even realize technology issues exist, then another 10-20 years to actually understand them.

I can see Congress starting to discuss it sometime around 2040. And then passing tons of stupid flawed meaningless laws about it for a few years that only make everything worse.

Maybe by 2060 they'll actually understand it well enough to react to it in a worthwhile way. But if we're lucky by then it'll be the AI running the country anyway.



Lokarin posted...

I think AI would be better than the current government, and cheaper too

And based on current standards, would probably be producing better entertainment content - scriptwriting, acting, music, graphical art - than most of what the current generation of humans is putting out there.

I for one welcome our new robot overlords.