Raw LLM Responses

Banning technology does not, and can never, work. ESPECIALLY when the tools necessary towards that technology are completely ubiquitous. Nuclear tech: Almost impossible to hide that you are researching it due to the specialized components and resources involved, development is effectively (but not totally) banned, and yet we have numerous countries that are developing it. Facial Recognition: I need a computer. Any computer. And a camera, almost any camera invented by man will suffice. How will you stop me from developing facial recognition technology? Sure, you can create laws/treaties/etc that ban companies/countries from using it...but again, that does nothing. If the UN pushes for a ban on allowing governments to do it, the US (or other security council country) vetos. If you put together a multinational treaty to ban it, the US (and other interested countries) don't sign it. You want to make them do it and apply sanctions, a security council country vetos UN authorization for sanctions, meaning that it is now legal in international courts for response sanctions or escalation if you still apply those sanctions anyway. And finally at the end of the day, even if you DO manage to pass one of those laws or get countries to agree to it...how do you enforce it? Again, the technology involved is totally ubiquitous. That security camera at the bank, how do you know it's hooked up only to their recorder and not feeding information onto a digital network that is scanning your face? As a customer, you don't. Hell, as an employee you probably wouldn't. With appropriate effort involved, the bank itself might not know that their security system is doing that. Technology bans just don't work.