It’s conceivable that, at some point, building design frameworks for friendly artificial intelligences (or, more plausibly, artificial intelligences in general) might be made illegal, but it certainly isn’t illegal now.
Legality really doesn’t seem to be a huge factor in whether the Secret Service can inconvenience you. And if they raided a gaming company, I could see them plausibly raiding an AI development organization.
That said, I don’t see anything to suggest it’s particularly likely, but a government investigation, all by itself, is incredibly disruptive even if you don’t end up guilty of any crimes.
It’s conceivable that, at some point, building design frameworks for friendly artificial intelligences (or, more plausibly, artificial intelligences in general) might be made illegal, but it certainly isn’t illegal now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_Games,_Inc._v._United_States_Secret_Service
Legality really doesn’t seem to be a huge factor in whether the Secret Service can inconvenience you. And if they raided a gaming company, I could see them plausibly raiding an AI development organization.
That said, I don’t see anything to suggest it’s particularly likely, but a government investigation, all by itself, is incredibly disruptive even if you don’t end up guilty of any crimes.
Edit: Fixed from FBI to Secret Service.