[advisedwang]

And universally across the globe societies have decided that flying them requires:

* Pilots to have a license and follow strict proceedure

* Every plane to have a government registration which is clearly painted on the side

* ATC to coordinate

* Manufacturers to meet regulations

* Accident review boards with the power to mandate changes to designs and procedures

* Airlines to follow regulations

Not to mention the cost barrier-to-entry resulting in fundamentally different calculation on how they are used.

[mikkupikku]

In America, any rando can build and fly an ultralight, no pilot license needed, no medical, no mandatory inspection of the ultralight or anything like that. I guess the idea is that 250 lbs (plus pilot) falling from the sky can't do that much damage.

[birdsongs]

Flight / aerospace is probably one of the worst analogies to use here!

As you say, it is one of the most regulated industries on earth. Versus whatever AI is now - regulated by vibes? Made mass accessible with zero safety or accountability?

[thunfischtoast]

All the aerospace rules are written in blood. Lots of blood. The comparison pretty much says that we have to expect lethal accidents related to AI

[jstummbillig]

> And universally across the globe societies have decided

No. Nobody decided anything of the sort about the wright brothers first plane. If they had, planes would not exist.

[birdsongs]

It also had a total of 2 users, if that.

It doesn't hold. This is a prototype aircraft that requires no license and that has been mass produced for nearly the entire population of earth to use.

[advisedwang]

We're already well past wright brothers. We have trillion dollar companies selling LLMs, hundreds of millions of people using chatbots and millions* of OpenClaw agents running.

Talking about regulation now isn't like regulating the wright brothers, it's like regulating lockheed martin.

* Going by moltbook's "AI agent" stat, which might be a bit dubious