Nov 29, 2025
We used to think the AI frontier would stay wide open, borderless, a little bit wild—like the early internet felt from a Montréal bedroom in 1995. The new US AI Act of 2025 just drew a line in the silicon: federal licensing, tiered risk rules, mandatory audits for the big players. It’s not dystopian, just deliberate. And here on the quieter side of the 49th parallel, where we instinctively reach for “peace, order, and good government” even in code, the question lingers: will our own coming rules feel like shelter or like a lid?