https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2026/09/18/bokhari-we-must-pace-the-frontier-of-government-power-grabs/
We Must Pace the Frontier of Government Power-Grabs
What do the Federal Reserve, the Patriot Act, Net Zero, COVID lockdown policies, foreign disinformation, and the proposed, globally-coordinated AI slowdown have in common?
Every item on the list was preceded by a crisis, either real or imagined, planting an existential fear in the minds of the public. This created the justification for a massive, globally-coordinated government response.
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The FISA courts that were expanded in the name of fighting Islamic terrorism were later used to enable deep state spying on a domestic presidential campaign. COVID lockdowns, established in response to a frightening virus we knew little about, persisted long after cases like Sweden, Florida, and Texas, proved their superfluousness. Net Zero policies, created in response to the never-ending climate change emergency, have left Europe economically crippled and dependent on foreign energy.
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And the current frontier is AI regulation. In the space of two weeks, we’ve seen the two leading AI companies – OpenAI and Anthropic – demand the government step in to collectively slow the industry down. This followed the resignation of an Anthropic researcher on the grounds that superintelligent AI could “kill us all,” a statement which attracted over a hundred million views on social media and was aired on primetime channels across the world.
Almost immediately, the global governance machine sprang to life. 70 UK Parliamentarians demanded a ban on superintelligent AI. Former president Barack Obama and former Vice President Kamala Harris joined in. Another British politician urged the United Nations to intervene.
And just a few days before the resignation of the Anthropic researcher, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) introduced legislation that would ban AI superintelligence and establish a new agency at the federal level dedicated to AI safety. Anyone who violated the bill provisions by developing frontier AI models without the blessing of the government would face up to twenty years in prison.
Most suspiciously of all, Netflix decided to drop an AI apocalypse documentary, just two days ago, featuring interviews with the very people demanding government intervention to prevent the AI doom scenario: Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Eliezer Yudkowsky, and more. Netflix documentaries, of course, take quite a bit of time to make, which has fed allegations of coordination.
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It's a good read.