Do / How do you want to see the US regulate or ban AI?

I've seen people discuss this on occasion, but for all the anti-AI sentiment here and elsewhere, I see very little in terms of concrete suggestions for feasible regulation. So I'd really like to hear how people expect this to play out.

In the spirit of transparency and not deploying fake neutrality in the form of a so-called "genuine" question, I'll share my perspective/bias:

There may be good options for regulating the very biggest models and/or AI models that interface directly with real world systems (lab equipment, power grids, etc). This is because the most powerful AI systems rely on infrastructure that governments can affect. There may also be good options for taxing revenue from AI companies to help redistribute the benefits/cost savings from AI.

That said, beyond those high level things (which may yet not be feasible), I think it's very unlikely that bans or regulation of lower level AI are going to work. At least not without a totalitarian world government that can control hardware and/or peer into people's computers. And at that point, the cure is worse than any AI disease. (It's not even clear that could be fully accomplished without AI tech.)

Especially when it comes to images/art (which is what this sub is most obsessed with), the horse is out of the barn. Local models that can run on medium to high level consumer hardware and produce results are are unrecognizable as AI already exist on millions of hard drives across the planet. It seems outlandish to believe that could ever be fully stamped out. (Short of TEOTWAWKI)

So what do y'all think? Will AI be the Wild West for the foreseeable future or forever? Will we be able to find some happy medium when it comes to regulation? Or will we all be subjects of an authoritarian Butlerian Jihad that seizes and destroys the thinking machines? Or maybe none of the above.