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Back when crypto was a munition, common people didn't care about being able to invent their own crypto algorithms. They just wanted to use the existing ones, and all they needed to do that was some C code that Phil Zimmermann famously published in a book, to get around export controls. Controlling GPUs won't control the use of AI because GPUs are only needed to train new models. If you just want to use a large language model then CPU works great and you just need one guy to publish the weights.

That happened a few months ago with LLaMA. Since then, the open source community has exceeded all expectations democratizing the hardware angle. AI regulators are already checkmated and they don't know it yet. If their goal is to control the use of AI (rather than simply controlling the people building it) then they'd need to go all the way when it comes to tyranny in order to accomplish their goals. Intel would need to execute Order 66 with their Management Engine and operating systems would need to modify their virus scanners to monitor and report the use of linear algebra. It'd be outrageous.