Everyone here being funny about 'lol it's like regulating math' I mean they already regulate so many dual use technologies. In the 90s they had crypto wars and like math formulas on munitions lists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States and probably they still have a lot of things like that.
They can easily make some regulations when models become a certain size like parameter count and exaflops and training data set terabytes. They don't even have to snoop everyone, they can have some whistleblowing system like SEC. "Anonymous employee of the Advanced Syncretic Systems corporation was paid out $200M yesterday as a result of the whistleblower incentives for the recently passed laws regulating the training, tuning, deployment, and monitoring of any so-called LGSC (Large General Sapient Capable) class of IT product or infrastructure."
The US government has lost every battle in the the crypto wars precisely because the constitution doesn't allow them to outlaw math. In the US, Crypto is currently export-controlled only in very narrow cases where it's integrated in systems specifically designed for military applications.
> "Anonymous employee of the Advanced Syncretic Systems corporation was paid out $200M...
As I hope is clear from how it begins "They can easily make some regulations ..." that entire paragraph is a hypothetical counterfactual that explores what those hypothetical regulations might look like and how they might hypothetically be enforced. It uses hypothetical employees being paid hypothetical amounts of money to hypothetically blow the whistle on hypothetical corporations that are hypothetically breaking hypothetical regulations involving hypothetical characterizations of hypothetical AI systems.
They can easily make some regulations when models become a certain size like parameter count and exaflops and training data set terabytes. They don't even have to snoop everyone, they can have some whistleblowing system like SEC. "Anonymous employee of the Advanced Syncretic Systems corporation was paid out $200M yesterday as a result of the whistleblower incentives for the recently passed laws regulating the training, tuning, deployment, and monitoring of any so-called LGSC (Large General Sapient Capable) class of IT product or infrastructure."