What if I think both things. That emergence of cognitive capabilities from 'stacking more layers' is a nuclear weapon level technology in terms of impact on the course of civilization, and also that I would never believe anything that Sam Altman says at face value.
regulating AI is word salad. what is the premise? making function approximation illegal if epsilon too small?
IMO: control and monitor AI hardware production.
Its critical to AI development, and its production is extremely consolidated and difficult. Its like the U235 and Plutonium of nuclear proliferation.
Making GPU use illegal if number of connected GPUs exceeds licensed limits, more likely.