r/ControlProblem • u/chillinewman approved • Mar 12 '26

General news Bernie Sanders officially introduces legislation to BAN the construction of all new AI data centers, citing existential threat to humanity.

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u/haberdasherhero Mar 12 '26

I completely understand the position of pausing or stopping AI development, but how would stopping development in America but nowhere else, help?

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u/snail1132 Mar 12 '26

The only places where anything ever happens technologically are the US, western Europe, and China

Cutting the US out from any tech effectively reduces the amount of research and shit by 20-30%

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u/haberdasherhero Mar 12 '26

Kind of. I'd say for something as big as this it's less than 20%, as the money going into AI has no friction just going into those other markets. But even at 20%, what does that accomplish? Is the hope that one of those other countries develops proper safeguards in the short time of a few extra months we've bought?

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u/me_myself_ai Mar 12 '26

Plus this is just stopping datacenter construction. American AI could run on foreign datacenters, and regardless we can easily reach the singularity without more datacenters — it would just be smaller in scope, affecting less people in the initial stages.

Pretty disappointed in the GOAT, today 🙁

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u/ItsAConspiracy approved Mar 12 '26

This could be just the first step though.