I’d say the big factor that makes AI controllable right now is that the compute necessary to build AI that can do very good AI research to automate R&D and then the economy is locked behind TSMC/NVidia and ASML, and their processes are both nearly irreplaceable and very expensive to make, so it’s way easier to intervene on the checkpoints requiring AI development than gain-of function research.
I’d say the big factor that makes AI controllable right now is that the compute necessary to build AI that can do very good AI research to automate R&D and then the economy is locked behind TSMC/NVidia and ASML, and their processes are both nearly irreplaceable and very expensive to make, so it’s way easier to intervene on the checkpoints requiring AI development than gain-of function research.
I agree, but I think this is slightly beside the original points I wanted to make.