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History is cluttered with dangers that if they were treated as singularly disqualifying rather than manageable, might have condemned generations to needless poverty, disease, or hardship.
Peter C. Earle
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October 19, 2026
What should be rejected is the presumption that uncertainty itself justifies prohibition.
Economic development has never meant eliminating danger before permitting discovery. It is a process through which experimentation, adaptation, and institutional evolution expand human capabilities while improving our capacity to manage hazards.
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The choice is not between utter recklessness and blissful safety; it is between accepting uncertainty in pursuit of improvement and institutionalizing stagnation in pursuit of unattainable certainty.
Americans should be concerned about what artificial intelligence might do. We should be equally, if not more concerned, about what humanity will never accomplish if a decidedly un-American cowardice prevents us from discovering what it can do.
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