We have gone from “small yard, high fence” to “regulating the global diffusion of advanced AI” in a little less than 30 months. You have just watched a regulatory regime grow by the better part of a thousand pages in three years, without a single member of Congress voting for anything.

This is what technocratic governance looks like. Rules beget rules. They almost have a mind of their own, like self-replicating automata. This kind of spiraling regulation is the sort of thing classical liberals like me warn about every time we embark on some new regulatory adventure. Of course it ended up like this