Schmidhuber: Banning superintelligence is infeasible as compute gets 10x cheaper every 5 years
irinarish · x · 2026-09-24
Jürgen Schmidhuber pushed back on Bernie Sanders' bill to ban artificial superintelligence, arguing bans are infeasible: compute keeps getting 10x cheaper every 5 years, and soon millions will run entire frontier labs plus recursive self-improvement algorithms on their desktops. Sanders cited Jensen Huang's remark that labs causing world damage should be shut down: "If you can't control it, don't build it."
More from AGI Musings
- Ben Todd wrestles with a 50:50 chance only 18 months remain of 'the human era' — ben_j_todd · 2026-11-11
- Mathematicians face identity crisis as AI solves problems in hours, Corriere interview warns — ValerioCapraro · 2026-11-11
- Why inference speed will be AI products' biggest competitive edge in 1–2 years — itsOmSarraf_ · 2026-11-11
- AI Defense Shifts to Scale Economics: Attacks Buried in Legitimate Traffic — DavidLinthicum · 2026-11-11
- Ben Todd's alt log-log plot shows task horizons hitting a singularity in under 12 months — ben_j_todd · 2026-11-11
- AI risk community splits over whether the intelligence explosion arrives in 2027 — sebkrier · 2026-11-11