This is not an April fool's joke, I’m participating in Inkhaven, which means I need to write a blog post every day.
I recently watched The AI Doc. It's the first big documentary featuring AI safety. It's playing in theatres across America. It's got a bunch of my friends and colleagues in it. It starts out with a sick Neil Young deep cut. I thought it was pretty great overall.
I liked the discussion of AI risks, but I was really disappointed by the way it discussed solutions to the risks from AI.
The documentary presents us with a choice: “Lock It Down” or “Let It Rip”. In other words: Do you want the government spying on everything you do? Or do you want terrorists to kill billions of people with bio-weapons?1
And this is after the filmmaker asks, “Why don’t we just stop?”
It's frustrating.
But I get it.
I used to think the same way.
It wasn’t until 2023 that I realized one of the most significant conclusions of the “scaling paradigm” for building AI, where progress is driven by trillions of dollars of investment into hardware, which is that there [...]
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Outline:
(01:50) The compute supply chain
(03:38) Dismantle the compute supply chain
(04:38) Systematically dismantle the compute supply chain
(05:40) Bad futures this helps avoid
The original text contained 2 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.
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First published:
April 1st, 2026
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/JXyveb6tBqy9RP6jF/systematically-dismantle-the-ai-compute-supply-chain
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
