In the early 1990s, strong encryption protocols were closed, prompting debate between the NSA and civil-liberty advocates over whether to open them.

“software you can kind of think about AI as a more advanced version of software it has you know many similarities actually it's like it is a digital utility and there were debates by the way around software being dangerous particularly in the early 1990s around strong encryption protocols you know like they were actually closed at the time and there were debates between the NSA and kind of civil liberty advocates around whether you should close it or open it”