Yes. We also advocate a research ban.

It does not bring us joy to say it. Something would be lost for it to be illegal for individuals to own more than (say) eight H100 GPUs from 2024.

But not so much would be lost that humanity ought to try to figure out exactly how large a datacenter can be before it gets risky. Erring on the side of a too-low limit means a few people are hampered in their ability to make progress on interesting projects. Erring too high means everyone dies.

Furthermore, this regime where AI requires enormous amounts of computing power to build won’t last forever. LLMs exist nowadays. Even if building new ones were banned, and building enormous amounts of computing power were banned, people could, in principle, study their inner workings and harvest a few insights about how intelligence works, insights which could help them invent more efficient algorithms that can slip around attempts at monitoring.