> If we want to put AI into the hands of as many people as possible, we need to drive down the cost of compute and make it abundant (which requires lots of ener

> If we want to put AI into the hands of as many people as possible, we need to drive down the cost of compute and make it abundant (which requires lots of energy and chips). If we don’t build enough infrastructure, AI will be a very limited resource that wars get fought over and that becomes mostly a tool for rich people. The mostly-open goal of every VC-funded startup is to become a monopoly. If a strong enough monopoly in AI hardware were to exist, then the issues he describes could become a problem. Otherwise, what he is describing is just the ad absurdum of how capitalism works. Phrased differently it sounds like: “If this extremely powerful and profitable product that depends on other products gets built, then if no one else builds the also profitable substrate that it operates on, terrible things will happen!” Or again slightly differently: “We need to be able to compete with our suppliers because our core business model might not be defensible unless we can also win in their space.”