The US is run by boomers for the most part and has been for decades. Boomers are fragile, easily scared, and non technical. They are also fundamentally non tolerant of diverse thinking. They are also rather power / control focused. All of this is regardless of political party.
If you say a bunch of crazy shit like AI is as powerful as nukes, then they are going to try to control it and you will get to see what boomer central planning feels like. (Hint, it feels like curse words being censored on TV for appearances sake even though everyone curses all the time.)
I’ve been very bullish on local models and anti guardrails for a very long time because of this exact situation which I saw coming.
The US and Europe desperately need frontier lab style local models or else Chinese models will be the norm, or boomers will try to ban those too and we will be underground exchanging models like it’s PGP in the 90s during the Clinton anti cryptography era.
None of my statement is politics which I care 0 for. It’s psychology, market dynamics, and a view on the current AI situation.