Would it be a good idea to put artificial limits on technology?

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

It's always a ridiculous argument. Maybe before we ban AI let's ban Chemical Weapon research facilities like there were in Wuhan? Pretty sure you don't need multiparagraph explaining why that's a humanitarian plus.

But if we can't even do something like that, which can be easily traced by chemical and experts, how will it be possible to ban AI which only needs high grade computing?

In the end the ridiculousness of the AI scare is that there are way worse and harmful research carried by countries, but the only reason people care about AI is that it replaces the most groups of people from the workplace.

Except we could, if we really wanted to, shut that garbage down. We don't because "muh diplomacy", but it would be possible to eliminate in its entirety bioweapons research and keep research on dangerous diseases (which is necessary, since some novel diseases are really nasty and theoretically could become a natural pandemic) done at a strictly neutral, publically monitored site like Antarctica. We simply stopped funding the research, offer incentives to Russia and China to stop doing it, and start sanctioning anyone who does it to hell and back.

"High-grade computing" is actually even easier to trace. Data farms consume enormous amounts of energy, produce a lot of heat, and consume computer parts in maintenance. You need a bunch of that shit to do AI research at the level we're seeing now. Not hard to shut down at all, just like how Russia and China can't domestically make microchips anywhere near as advanced as the West.