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AI is very different from nuclear weapons because a state can't really use nuclear weapons to oppress its own people, but it absolutely can with AI, so for the average human "only the government controls AI" is much more dangerous than "only the government controls nukes".

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But that makes such rules more likely, not less.

Which is why politicians are going to enforce systematic export regulations to defend the "free world" by stopping “terrorists", and also to stop "rogue states" from using AI to oppress their citizens. /s

I don't think there's any need to be sarcastic about it. That's a very real possibility at this point. For example, the US going insane about how dangerous it is for China to have access to powerful GPU hardware. Why do they hate China so much anyway? Just because Trump was buddy buddy with them for a while?

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