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The $10B Satellite Empire Putting AI in Orbit, Why Chips Beat Rockets & China's #1 Open Model | EP #266
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Machine-Native Sanctions: How to Punish an AI Entity
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Salim lists machine-native enforcement mechanisms: compute revocation, asset seizure, model credential suspension, forced deletion, loss of legal identity. Discussion of AI personhood as spectrum, not binary.
Today we spend 100 times more on AI development than the Manhattan Project cost in real terms, but 100 times less on AI safety than was spent on nuclear safety during that era — a 10,000x deficit.
We're spending 100 times more on AI today than the Manhattan Project cost — and 100 times less on AI safety than we spent on nuclear safety then. That's a 10,000x deficit. Will Marshall's call: lock Yuval Harari, Demis Hassabis, Dario Amodei, and top legal and moral thinkers in a room and don't let them out until they have answers.
