Slowing AI Won't Stop Superintelligence — It'll Lock Intelligence Behind $3T Companies
SucceededMind · x · 2026-09-21
A thread argues that slowing AI won't stop superintelligence — it will simply concentrate it: only sovereign governments and $3T companies would afford frontier intelligence, everyone else gets locked out, and consumers lose access to affordable medical and learning tools.
The author draws on electricity (safety came with ubiquitous grids and inspectors) and early railroad panic to argue that compute abundance, not moratoriums, is what democratizes AI.
Related event: Reddit post pushes back on Dario Amodei's AI slowdown argument(2 posts)→
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