I think we're probably heading toward another AI winter anyway, so this would be like the government covering it up until things thaw again. But anyway, there'

I think we're probably heading toward another AI winter anyway, so this would be like the government covering it up until things thaw again. But anyway, there's no way to enforce not running certain programs without some kind of Orwellian surveillance baked in to hardware that I would abhor more than Roko's basilisk, and you now make the people at the forefront of the technology criminals and geopolitical adversaries. It would be an ultra-bonehead move. As always, technology and law don't mix well.