I'm working my way through the "Blueprints for Armageddon" series in hardcore history. The attempts to regulate AI remind me of the Russian efforts to regulate

I'm working my way through the "Blueprints for Armageddon" series in hardcore history. The attempts to regulate AI remind me of the Russian efforts to regulate war before WW1. In the first part of BfA (I think) he talks about the peace conferences in Russia whose goals were to limit the progression of technology. Partly because Russia wasn't prepared for a high tech war, and partly because large scale efficient killing was kinda scary. Anyways, they wanted to limit what technologies could be improved by freezing combat technologies where they were at the time. Dan talks about how it wan't really that far-fetched of an idea to to artificially limit the spread and extension of knowledge at the time. This is in contrast to today, where it seems impossible for technological advancement to stop. Tech changes so fast it's difficult to imagine that it'll be slowing down soon. Could we even slow down the advancement of AI if we wanted to? How? Is there any dangerous technology whose development could be stopped even if we saw it coming?