[namaria]

If shutting down datacenters is your solution to AI getting out of hand, it isn't as much a solution as fall out.

[semi-extrinsic]

Look at the measures that were implemented during covid. Many of them were a lot more extreme than shutting down datacentres, yet they were aimed to mitigate a risk far less than "existential".

[namaria]

That's a post hoc conclusion. At the time we were all uncertain.