If you don’t pay them, you can walk by feet. If they ban you, you can walk by feet. If their infrastructure is damaged, no one and nothing will be able to move.
Single points of failure are a fact of life.
AI offers relative democratization. What’s going on with model competition is giving us more choice, not less.
Good point about infra, but that’s already the case with Cloudflare, GitHub, aws, etc
BTW, when (not if, but when) a war happens, they will become very nice targets to render this exact country completely disabled.
Humans are autonomous, distributed, and adaptable. In a package that weighs ~150 lbs, with very low energy requirements.
You literally cannot wipe them out without a sustained and incredibly expensive ground campaign, and even then it's not likely.
AI in a data center on the other hand... So easily disabled.
And voila. No cargo moved, no code changes or fixes, no medical diagnosis made,etc. A whole country is disabled.
I thought that was an interesting idea, but not something that could ever happen..
Re: war.. that’s why US spends orders of magnitude more on military than anyone else. If any infra is hit on US soil then im heading to the bunker because most of the world will have already been reduced to dust.