Comment by chasd00

> When has "pump the brakes on progress" ever worked out?

the only thing i can think of was when that Chinese scientist produced gene edited human babies. He was pretty much excommunicated from the scientific community and, eventually, spent some time in jail.

AI, on the other hand, has a huge profit potential and way too far out of the bag to go back in. To quote the movie Terminator, "it will never stop".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Jiankui_affair