Another approach:
Legalize relatively-safer drugs, thus reducing the demand for more-dangerous drugs. (The inverse-gateway-drug effect: legalization of cannabis reduces use of illegal opioids.)
An AI equivalent might be encouraging the use of self-hosted open-weights AI systems rather than proprietary commercial ones; thus depriving AI labs of revenue that they need to do capabilities research.
Another approach:
Legalize relatively-safer drugs, thus reducing the demand for more-dangerous drugs. (The inverse-gateway-drug effect: legalization of cannabis reduces use of illegal opioids.)
An AI equivalent might be encouraging the use of self-hosted open-weights AI systems rather than proprietary commercial ones; thus depriving AI labs of revenue that they need to do capabilities research.