But whether politicians can act quickly enough to mitigate possible damage is doubtful, experts told me. “The developments are coming so fast and furious that it is very difficult to keep up with what the harms are and how to address them,” Nate Persily, a co-director of the Stanford Law AI Initiative, told me. He said that although there’s a growing consensus that it would be “foolish” to allow AI to continue advancing without robust federal guardrails, the complexities and rapidly changing threat landscape would challenge any country’s leadership. “There are genuinely hard questions of statutory design here,” he said.