Been seeing a lot of talk about data centers. It’s important for Americans to understand why we should all support AI data centers, even if we want some form of policy to address AI.
During WW2, as the first country to develop nuclear weapons, the US was in a position of near-unlimited power. We were the only nation that could destroy entire civilizations overnight. As the most moral country in the world, we could be trusted to wield that power responsibly.
A similar power will soon be bestowed upon the first country to leverage AI to build a robot army (or some equivalent). Governments around the world realize this, and nothing will prevent them from trying to be the first. It will either be them, or it’ll be us. It needs to be us.
If we’re going to propose policy to address AI, we need to make sure it doesn’t limit our ability to win the AI arms race, and limiting data centers impacts our ability to win the arms race.
The right policy approach is to focus on how AI gets used within our society, without limiting our AI capabilities outside of it.
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@HillelNeuer I was a student at Columbia when Ahmadinejad spoke. The campus was such a circus that day we jokingly called it "Ahmadinejad-fest". FWIW, Lee Bollinger, President of the university at the time, humiliated Ahmadinejad in his introduction.