It would be awfully convenient for the current big players if friction was added to bringing additional large scale compute resources online. Existing data centers would be grandfathered of course…

Nobody's an expert on AI more than me and basically all my friends.

What I do know is there are more dangers for the human race than AI. One example is fungi that have become immune to intervention because of abuse in farming. Fungicides are much more difficult to make than antibiotics, because fungi only recently split from human cells in the evolution. What protects us from them is our warm body temperature.

With global warming sometimes fungi evolve to resist higher temperatures, killing entire populations of cats.

How will we defend against this without AI?

What if next month there is a plague of fungi that are resistant and quickly spreading killing 4 out of 5 people?

What will we do then without our AI? Let the micro-organisms win? Because we like nature so much because it's so natural?

We need AI if we ever want to stand a chance against events like this. Many animals went extinct. 99.999% of all animals I would argue. Will we be very very lucky? We are super densely populated and flying all around. How quickly could covid infect all humans?

Not having AI is also an existential threat in the long term.