Schmidhuber: Superintelligence Bans Won't Work as Compute Gets 10x Cheaper Every 5 Years

Responding to Bernie Sanders' proposal to ban superintelligence, Jürgen Schmidhuber argued bans are technically infeasible: compute gets roughly 10x cheaper every 5 years, so millions will soon run frontier-level systems on desktop machines.

2026-09-24 ~ 2026-09-24 · 3 related posts

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