The tools needed to build AI superorganisms are already on the internet, for free. The only way for the US government to pull back would be to forcibly shut down data centers or ban the usage of privately owned GPUs. Essentially, economic suicide.
Most AI training & R&D will be happening in the big companies. So just stopping them would cut the overall rate of AI progress by, like, a factor of 4x or so. Which isn’t the same thing as ‘no more AI’ but arguably it’s better, actually. Plus you could redirect the big companies efforts to something more useful like alignment research or less dangerous like narrow applications. I’m not saying this will happen, I’m just saying the sentence beginning “the only way...” seems wrong or missing the point.
Most AI training & R&D will be happening in the big companies. So just stopping them would cut the overall rate of AI progress by, like, a factor of 4x or so. Which isn’t the same thing as ‘no more AI’ but arguably it’s better, actually. Plus you could redirect the big companies efforts to something more useful like alignment research or less dangerous like narrow applications. I’m not saying this will happen, I’m just saying the sentence beginning “the only way...” seems wrong or missing the point.