Taken from the FenWiki Artificial Intelligence page:
Quote:"Occasionally groups with interest in acquiring 'wavetech, or merely being excessively wavephobic, will push for legislation that declares them to be little more than property. The worst of these was an early attempt by the United States Congress to declare anything that had been created or altered by Handwavium to be property subject to immediate seizure if it entered the United States; that attempt died in committee."There should probably be a at least three entries for AI: one for an immediate, knee-jerk reaction, one a tentative law that that repeals that original but doesn't actually say anything other than "we're keeping an open mind," and the last a cautious acceptance, probably as late as the 2020s.