Ethics don’t scale. Paul Ford traces how AI labs started as altruistic crusades to save humanity from killer robots and ended up lobbying for bills that limit their liability in mass deaths. (New York Times)
- The pattern is not unique: Google, Microsoft, and Twitter all launched with noble missions that dissolved under the weight of scale, market pressure, and legal exposure.
- Ford argues regulation is actually in the industry's interest, coining "KAIJU Act" as a riff on the kaiju monster metaphor and AI's shared letters, a joke that lands harder than it should.
