Thought experiment: should a basement-built frontier-level LLM be shut down?
pickover · x · 2026-09-15
Author Cliff Pickover poses an AI policy thought experiment: if Sue builds an LLM in her basement twice as capable as today's frontier models, would Bernie Sanders, the government, or AI CEOs demand it be shut down? Would you?
The prompt highlights a governance tension: as personal compute grows, can centralized control of frontier AI even reach individual developers?
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