Sabine Hossenfelder says superintelligent AI will be expensive, hardware-tied and exclusive
skdh · x · 2026-07-26
Sabine Hossenfelder argues that superintelligent AI will likely be expensive, hardware-tied, and tightly access-controlled.
- She rejects the idea of cheap “genius assistants” for everyone.
- In her view, the first nations or corporations that can build these systems would dominate economically and militarily.
- The result would be a widening gap: the rich get much smarter, while everyone else is left behind.
- Her framing is explicitly based on physics and economics rather than sci-fi speculation.
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