I take your point, but this feels pretty defeatist to me.
I don’t personally believe that “we have not historically done this well, if at all” is a good reason to stop trying to manage the negative externalities of emerging technology— quite the opposite, in my opinion.
However, "the future technology is completely unpredictable and we don't understand it" is probably a fairly good reason we will only make worse mistakes in that regard going forward.
I don’t personally believe that “we have not historically done this well, if at all” is a good reason to stop trying to manage the negative externalities of emerging technology— quite the opposite, in my opinion.