NVIDIA's crisis could accelerate a major US crackdown on AI chip exports.
FAI @hamandcheese says Republicans, Democrats, and the White House are now pushing for tougher restrictions:
"The CHIPS Security Act, which is location tracking for GPU exports. The MATCH Act, which is harmonizing export controls on semiconductor manufacturing equipment. And the Remote Access Security Act, extending export controls to remotely accessed data centers in Southeast Asia."
"The wind is at the back of people who want these export controls."
"Ironically, it's been the Democrats that have needed hand-holding. That has completely flipped. Now you have Republicans wanting export controls, Democrats wanting export controls, House leadership, and the White House actively recommending even stronger additions."
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Mustafa Suleyman: I'd stop Al over a 10% chance of mass harm.
"if it's actually 10%"
"taking a one in 10 shot at causing mass harm or even extinction"
"then it's obviously a no-brainer that we don't just slow down or pause we absolutely have to stop.
A new lawsuit has been filed against leading AI companies to pause advanced AI development. Good.
If AI escapes human control, we could be looking at disaster. A global financial crisis? A Chernobyl-type meltdown? Even worse?
We can't wait to find out. Pause advanced AI NOW!
This slide from the Anthropic IPO roadshow was a big factor in my decision to leave. It’s an insane plot and I’m surprised they made it public.
It shows the compute efficiency of pretraining over time. The y-axis is a **log scale**: they are seeing continued superexponential algorithmic progress.
Mythos was not a one-time deviation, but a point on a superexponential. They could already retrain Mythos with a fraction of the compute originally needed.
It doesn’t strictly imply a software-only intelligence explosion- they have been spending more on R+D. But algorithmic improvements do not require ridiculous creative genius and are on the verge of being automated. You do the math.