The takeaway I got was that the author more or less wants the conversation about regulation of AI to be less of a top-down approach to a broad reaching and loos

The takeaway I got was that the author more or less wants the conversation about regulation of AI to be less of a top-down approach to a broad reaching and loosely defined topic. The scenario of a, "grey goo" apocalypse verses, say, a bank hiding otherwise discriminatory lending practices behind a neural network black-box, are radically different in terms of plausibility and likelihood. Given the esoteric nature of the topic it's all too easy to see where this is headed when it comes to representative governance. Knee-jerk legislative umbrellas based on the comments of eccentric megalomaniacs made to the news media is a fool's errand, and there's a hell of a lot of foolish people out there.