AI'S FINAL BOSS: THE PERMIT OFFICE

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An AI system needs computers to run, just as a bakery needs ovens. Computing capacity is how much work those computers can do.

Control access, and you could influence who gets to build or use powerful AI.

On All-In's October 30 episode, a panelist predicted governments would eventually assign that capacity, rather than merely control chips. The argument: AI companies could accumulate enough money and influence to compete with governments for power.

That's a panelist's forecast, not an announced government policy.

Lil'meme's imagined version: he drags a humming supercomputer into a government permit office, takes a ticket and discovers that superintelligence cannot identify the correct window. Humanity finally builds a machine that answers questions.

Humanity immediately invents another counter.

The discussion also turned to Anthropic's political influence. Keep lobbying separate from bribery: lobbying means trying to influence government decisions; spending on it does not establish that politicians were bought.

Issue One's October 21 analysis documents Anthropic's lobbying and AI-aligned political spending.

The useful question isn't simply whether companies or governments should control AI. It's who writes the access rules, how decisions can be challenged, and whether ordinary people get a say.

Watch the discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1Dy4e4ff0s&t=2208s

Repost before the permit office introduces a sharing application.

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