maybe we can fix a lot of these issues by creating hardware that is not internet-enabled as a companion to internet-enabled hardware; like, hardware that only communicates with a secondary device or group of in-range devices, similar to a walkie talkie.

take biometric data as an example – all the data that we stop feeding to these Too Smart Phones is data that can and should be stored and shared privately. signing data might actually be useful if that data has only ever been stored in a fully offline personal device and every copy has a unique key.

I think the use of AI here is fundamentally unnecessary because it's real value is in data analysis. so in order to control AI you have to control your data. regulations concerning AI should actually start with the way data is scraped from both the internet and from devices (because they are doing that, too, and that's probably why Sam Altman knows his ass is cooked.)