The tragic irony being that's basically what we did and continue to do.
* Must be licensed
* Must have a minimum level of liability insurance that covers other participants in an accident
* Can be fined, get higher insurance premiums, and lose their licenses for breaking driving laws
* Can be put in jail for felonies for sufficiently reckless driving that has the potential to endanger others
As I understand it, commercially licensed drivers usually have even higher requirements and lose their licenses more easily for driving infractions.
GenAI makes a lot of creative actions much easier, faster, automatable, and available to everyone, and "everyone" includes a lot of people with no foresight or discipline whatsoever.
Eventually jaywalking was invented as a concept by the car lobby.
> And then the automobile happened. And then automobiles began killing thousands of children, every year.
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-76-the-modern...
Well, it does highlight the fact that AI will make this sort of manipulation so much easier and faster.
Imagine a world where there the only vehicles are bicycles and people crash frequently. Now, the first car is introduced and someone crashes at 100MPH -- would you really say that the car is irrelevant to the situation because people have been crashing for decades?
Yes, you are right: the root problem is the way we view people's minds as a resource to be exploited through psychological manipulation, but that does not make irrelevant the very real new danger of AI.