Federal AI regulation is long overdue, and the risks are no longer theoretical — frontier models already pose real cybersecurity threats to critical infrastructure and national security. Mandatory third-party testing, deployment authority and strong safety standards are the bare minimum needed to keep pace with exponential AI progress. Job displacement is a genuine danger too, and wage insurance, retention incentives and long-term income support must be part of any serious policy response.
Amodei's policy framework is sedation dressed up as solution — FAA-style testing cannot regulate a technology dissolving invisibly into every workflow on Earth. The labor proposals amount to a velvet-lined coffin: tracking displacement, bribing firms to keep workers and offering wage coupons for downward mobility. Once a CEO concedes labor demand may never recover, the conversation stops being about incentives and starts being about who controls the economy when wages no longer matter.
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