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Meanwhile in Bavaria

Kevin MacLeod · incompetech.com · CC BY 4.0

The pitch here is that an entire emerging technology needs no oversight beyond one man's self-certified intelligence, which is less a policy than a personality test he grades himself. Note the tell: bragging about “tremendous CRIMINAL and REGULATORY power” over private companies is not a reassurance about safety, it is a reminder that the safety is conditional on staying in favor. And the word “BEWARE,” aimed at conspiracy theorists and leakers in the same breath as people who merely criticize data centers, is the sound of a guardrail being repurposed as a guardhouse. Any leader who insists the only check needed is himself has just described, with unusual precision, the thing checks exist for.