TechFlow news: In response to comments by Messari founder Ryan Selkis on the importance of AGI and AI regulation, Vitalik Buterin stated:
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Superintelligent AI poses significant risks, and we should not rush its development—those pushing for it should be opposed. He expressed opposition to building $7 trillion server farms.
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Open models running on consumer hardware serve as an effective safeguard against the future concentration of AI power and the control of human thought by a few central servers. These models also carry far less risk than threats posed by corporate giants and military entities.
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Categorizing AI into "small" and "large," with exemptions for small models and regulation for large ones, is reasonable in principle. However, he worries that many current proposals may ultimately classify all AI systems as "large."
