> The real impact of AI is likely to be subtler: AI tools will shift power away from workers and centralize it in the hands of a few companies.
I don’t understand how the article can say something like this, but then further down essentially contradict itself.
> But a containment approach is unlikely to be effective for AI. LLMs are orders of magnitude cheaper to build than nuclear weapons or cloning — and the cost is rapidly dropping. And the technical know-how to build LLMs is already widespread.
How can AI tools cause centralization if the cost is rapidly dropping, accessible to everyone, and the technical know-how is widespread?
In my opinion, AI is doing exactly the opposite. What was only possible at large companies are now becoming possible to do by oneself. Video games, for example, used to require teams of artists and programmers. With code and art generation, a single individual has never had more capability to make something by themselves.
I don’t understand how the article can say something like this, but then further down essentially contradict itself.
> But a containment approach is unlikely to be effective for AI. LLMs are orders of magnitude cheaper to build than nuclear weapons or cloning — and the cost is rapidly dropping. And the technical know-how to build LLMs is already widespread.
How can AI tools cause centralization if the cost is rapidly dropping, accessible to everyone, and the technical know-how is widespread?
In my opinion, AI is doing exactly the opposite. What was only possible at large companies are now becoming possible to do by oneself. Video games, for example, used to require teams of artists and programmers. With code and art generation, a single individual has never had more capability to make something by themselves.