I'm John Batchel with my good colleague Kevin Fraser, who is my guide, who is my guide.

He's my Virgil to the landscape.

We'll not call it Hades.

We'll say it's not heaven.

It's not Hades.

It's that other thing.

It's in between.

And in between is discovering a new technology

that looks like robotics. I understand that. And Isaac Asimov dominates that. A robot shall not

hurt a human being or permit a human being to be hurt in its presence. And then the other law is saying,

you must preserve yourself as long as it doesn't violate law one.

And you must preserve all other robots

as long as it violates not two and one.

What I realize in reading Kevin's material here

is that I, as a young science fiction reader, just assumed you

had to put regulations on robots. You see what that is. That's a regulatory environment,

sometimes called imperialism. And those regulations are helter-skelter, they're on the way certainly in Europe and recently the

Trump administration moved to keep them from peopling not only the states of the union but the

municipalities within the states Gavin reading your articles and watching AI in the news

at this point there's a waterfall of regulation coming.

And I can see that it starts out to be benign. You know, we just don't want children to fill in the

black. But it's turning into complete blockage of AI development in certain areas of the country.

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