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Their wordsBut with AI, it’s different: it’s often only a couple of years between when you need a world-class computing cluster to do something and when you can run it on a high-end gaming chip on your laptop.
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↗Nonproliferation is the wrong approach to AI misusehelentoner.substack.com
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Their wordsEach and every time, it took at most a few years but typically months before other companies would achieve the same level of performance using a broadly similar, and always relatively simple, recipe.
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↗The Real Lesson of DeepSeek's R1milesbrundage.substack.com
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Their words2 years after the leading actor has the capability to destroy the world, 5 other actors will have the capability to destroy the world.
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↗AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalitiesintelligence.org
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Toner, Brundage and Yudkowsky hold jointly that any given capability becomes cheap and widely available within a couple of years of first being reached. Bengio argues that weights capable of being weaponised should not be released. If the diffusion claim holds, withholding buys a delay rather than a prevention — which is an argument for doing it carefully, not an argument that it is pointless, and neither side says which.
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