binarybits: If robots taking construction jobs worries you, regulate robots, not AI models
binarybits · x · 2026-09-15
- Argues robot-run construction sites are 5+ years away, so panic is premature
- If that's the real concern, the target should be robots, not AI models
- Counterpoint on human oversight: slowing down a Navier-Stokes solver matters, but datacenter construction is mostly done by humans anyway, so oversight may not slow it at all
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