The regulatory illusion in the face of artificial intelligence

If someone believes that a couple of bureaucrats can regulate artificial intelligence, they are not only wrong: they are looking at the world with categories that have already become obsolete. The discussion is neither technical nor legal. It is a discussion about the State's real capacity to understand and act in an environment that exceeds it.

Artificial intelligence isn't just another tool. It is a system that learns, that processes information on a massive scale and that adapts in real time. While a state body is drafting a regulation, the system it seeks to control has already changed several times. While an official is analyzing a report, technology has already incorporated new layers of complexity. The gap is not one of efficiency. It's natural.

The State operates with a static logic in a dynamic world. Its operation depends on procedures, hierarchies and administrative times that, at best, advance at the pace of a file. Artificial intelligence, on the other hand, moves on a completely different plane: iterative, decentralized and accelerated.

Pretending that a structure designed for the 19th century will regulate 21st century technology is an act of intellectual arrogance.

But the problem doesn't end there. It's not just that red tape is slow. In addition, it lacks the basic mechanisms to know if you are making good decisions. In the market, the signs are clear: success is rewarded and error is punished. In the state apparatus, such a compass simply does not exist. Decisions are not corrected by results, they are perpetuated by inertia. And that, transferred to the world of artificial intelligence, is explosive

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Because while AI optimizes processes, reduces costs and discovers new solutions, regulation tends to do the exact opposite: it introduces friction, raises barriers to entry and protects established players. It's not a coincidence. It's the logical result of a system that doesn't compete, but manages power.

In the name of “protecting”, innovation is often blocked and privileges are consolidated.

This is where the political component that many prefer to hide comes in. In Argentina, for years, Kirchnerism and its derivatives built a state apparatus that is not designed to understand change, but to resist it. A State that sees every technological advance as a threat to its capacity for control.

In the face of uncertainty, it responds with more regulation, more intervention and more discretion.

Artificial intelligence exposes that model like never before. Because it shows that the problem is not the lack of rules, but the excessive arrogance of those who believe that they can design reality from a desk. The idea that a state body can “order” a system that processes millions of variables in seconds is not just naive. It's dangerous.

And yet, the traditional political response remains the same: to regulate more. Create agencies, commissions, observatories. Multiply layers of control over something that, by definition, cannot be controlled that way.

It is the automatic reflection of a mentality that does not understand that the world has changed.

Faced with this, another vision begins to emerge. One that understands that progress is not planned, but discovered. That innovation is not directed, but is allowed.

The real role of the State, if any, is to stop hindering.

In that sense, the paradigm shift that is beginning to creep in in Argentina is no small. For the first time in decades, there is a political narrative that does not start from distrust of the individual, but from the conviction that creativity, knowledge and innovation arise from the bottom up. The problem isn't that there are a lack of regulations. It's just that they're left over.

Artificial intelligence doesn't need to be tamed by bureaucrats. You need an environment where you can unleash your full potential. An environment where the rules are clear, but not stifling. Where the focus is on liberating, not restricting.

Because deep down, the real discussion isn't about technology. It's about power. And artificial intelligence, like so many other innovations throughout history, is running the axis of that power away from the State and bringing it closer to individuals

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That's what's really uncomfortable. And that's what explains why, once again, the same old people want to regulate what they don't understand.