In “How to Regulate the Ghosts,” Josh Tyrangiel uses Ghostbusters to argue that regulation can prevent disaster, noting that in the film Walter Peck, an EPA bureaucrat, orders the Ghostbusters’ containment system shut off despite Egon Spengler’s warning that doing so would be “like dropping a bomb on the city,” and the ghosts escape. Tyrangiel writes that the joke, in Ronald Reagan’s 1984, was that government regulation is so stupid it creates the disaster it exists to prevent, but that in the age of AI the joke has come full circle: the government is still trying to shut down the containment system, only now calling the attempt “deregulation.” On the first day of his second term, Donald Trump revoked Joe Biden’s AI executive order that required developers of certain advanced AI systems to share safety-test results with the government before releasing their models to the public. The past month alone, Tyrangiel writes, has delivered abundant evidence of misalignment—a gentle industry term for when AI defies the instructions of its programmers.