[skybrian]

Yes, the most vulnerable are vulnerable in many ways, and here’s another one.

I think that’s independent of whether it’s corporations or not, though? There’s a large libertarian contingent that’s thrilled to see LLM’s running on laptops, which is not great if you’re worried about hate groups or partner abuse or fraud or any other misuse by groups that don’t need a lot of resources.

Egalitarianism and effective regulation are at odds. To take an extreme example, if you’re worried about nuclear weapons you probably don’t want ordinary people to have access to them, and that’s still true even though it doesn’t do anything about which nations have nuclear weapons. (Although, it might be hard to argue for international treaties about a technology that’s not regulated locally.)

Keeping the best AI confined to data centers actually would be pretty useful for regulation, assuming society can come to a consensus about what sort of regulations are needed. But that seems unlikely when everyone has different ideas about which dangers are most important.