Hilbert Spaess Argues a Global AI Slowdown Serves Everyone's Interest
hilbertspaess · x · 2026-09-28
In a tongue-in-cheek post, the author argues a global AI slowdown is clearly in everyone's interest: datacenters humming, curing rare diseases, automating alignment research instead of making models smarter — leaving humans time to digest breakthroughs and make art. The catch, he notes, is that it's "just a lil collective action problem."
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