Some time ago I interviewed with an AI governance think tank, and one of the topics that came up for ensuring Western-allied AI supremacy was trade security of

Some time ago I interviewed with an AI governance think tank, and one of the topics that came up for ensuring Western-allied AI supremacy was trade security of compute resources. I didn’t want to shoot down their approach on this to their faces because they had a lot of blogs on their site, with OpenAI co-authors, about the efficacy of this approach. But I was never sold on the idea that holding off compute resources would stop someone from researching into better AI, I thought it would just push them to make more efficient AI. Lo and behold.