2026-09-14 20:45 UTC
They are going to try to, in rough order of ease and plausiblity:
provide a legal excuse for them to stop shoveling money into a furnace of training for exponentially diminishing returns
attain regulatory capture where their weirdos are in charge of everything
to thereby make open source AI illegal, only things that go through THEIR gated portals can be used
Maybe make ownership of the means of computation for ANY reason illegal so you cannot own anything and have to rent everything from them for any purpose because YOU MIGHT BE SUMMONING THE DEMON IN YOUR GARAGE!!!oneoneoen
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@BioMan@awful.systems 2026-09-14 21:30
Confirmed theguardian.com/…/google-deepmind-ai-warnings The shape of the solution is simple: stop companies from allowing AI to self-improve into an uncontrollable level of intelligence. Treat compute, the main ingredient in AI training, like fissile material. Track it and restrict access to quantities large enough to improve AIs beyond known-safe levels. More specifically, the AI Futures Project’s “Plan A” is a credible starting proposal that limits AI harms while allowing fast AI progress to continue to benefit the world. We have real options for verifying compliance with international compute-restriction treaties, without trusting adversaries like China.