>The US has been checkmated ... I'm going to take issue with this statement. Nobody has checkmated the US. If we have to stay in this metaphor, the US checkmated itself. One of the biggest mistakes was to allot the same number of votes to Rhode Island as to California in the senate. A more proportionate voting system would do wonders for half the issues you listed. Appointing judges for life is another one. Financing election campaigns like that is also mad. Nobody forced Americans to do business like that. This isn't a game of chess where checkmate is irreversible. The sooner folks stop formulating arguments why I'm wrong or why these are insurmountable hurdles, the better for all of us. While I do agree that with the cult clown car people in charge of the executive right now, there is an added difficulty to passing legislation. The Epstein Act part 1 has shown though there are ways. So regulation on so-called AI is still possible and not late like the article seems to suggest.