Nobody except governments (plural) has the authority to regulate things. If you think regulation is required, there is no choice except governments to do it. In

Nobody except governments (plural) has the authority to regulate things. If you think regulation is required, there is no choice except governments to do it. Industries can only regulate themselves if given the power to do so by a government. Otherwise it is just a cartel agreeing to not push to hard under threat of actual regulation (and when one party thinks they can push harder, it falls apart). As a real example, fully autonomous weapons will be developed and used. And if you don't want them to exist outside of black markets and pariah states, governments need to agree that development, manufacture and sale of them is a crime, like chemical weapons and land mines. Yes, I didn't say it would work well, but it is still the best tool we have.