Is the only way to regulate AI through chip fabs?

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This means regulating the most advanced chip fabs, TSMC, Samsung, and Intel on manufacturing ever more powerful AI training chips.I can't think of another way to prevent a rogue lab from training ever more powerful AI.Only AI labs that pass stringent audits and regulations can be allowed to buy more powerful AI chips.If we determine that AI is an existential threat to humanity, like nuclear weapons are, shouldn't we regulate AI training chips like we regulate nuclear weapon making material?Countries have treaties signed on nuclear weapons. Why not sign treaties on AI chip making/buying?

behnamoh · Accepted Answer

How do we make sure no country builds underground chip facilities just for training AGI models? tbh, the genie is out of the bottle. I never thought the path to AGI would be so "simple": basically you take a 2017 paper and give it tons of data and see AGI emerge. It's fascinating.

lisasays · Answer

Not just chip fabs; also data centers. According to Eliezer S. Yudkowsky, if push comes to shove, we can also order airstrikes against the latter:
If intelligence says that a country outside the agreement is building a GPU cluster, be less scared of a shooting conflict between nations than of the moratorium being violated; be willing to destroy a rogue datacenter by airstrike.
https://time.com/6266923/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-open-letter-no...

verdverm · Answer

> Countries have treaties signed on nuclear weapons.
Yet we also have nuclear technology for energy, medicine, and more. It's a big jump from weapons to a foundation technology.
How do you predetermine if a multi-use chip is going to be used for AI or something else? These GPU like chips have multiple purposes