This is not an April fool's joke, I’m participating in Inkhaven, which means I need to write a blog post every day.

I recently watched The AI Doc. It's the first big documentary featuring AI safety. It's playing in theatres across America. It's got a bunch of my friends and colleagues in it. It starts out with a sick Neil Young deep cut. I thought it was pretty great overall.

I liked the discussion of AI risks, but I was really disappointed by the way it discussed solutions to the risks from AI.

The documentary presents us with a choice: “Lock It Down” or “Let It Rip”. In other words: Do you want the government spying on everything you do? Or do you want terrorists to kill billions of people with bio-weapons?1

And this is after the filmmaker asks, “Why don’t we just stop?”

It's frustrating.

But I get it.

I used to think the same way.

It wasn’t until 2023 that I realized one of the most significant conclusions of the “scaling paradigm” for building AI, where progress is driven by trillions of dollars of investment into hardware, which is that there [...]

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(01:50) The compute supply chain

(03:38) Dismantle the compute supply chain

(04:38) Systematically dismantle the compute supply chain

(05:40) Bad futures this helps avoid

The original text contained 2 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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