Politics
Dean Ball Says US Government Considers AI Company Nationalization in National Crisis
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Dean Ball, on Joining OpenAI: New Power Centers, Frontier AI Policy, & Main Character Energy
What was said
"There is a part of the action plan that obliquely references the notion of the military commandeering all the data centers in the country in the event of a national crisis where we needed to stitch them together to do something."
Dean Ball revealed that America's AI Action Plan contains provisions allowing the government to seize control of all US data centers during a national emergency. He described this as written in sufficiently mundane language that it didn't attract public attention, but represents a significant contingency plan for crisis scenarios involving AI infrastructure.
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- Programme
- Cognitive Revolution
- Episode
- Dean Ball, on Joining OpenAI: New Power Centers, Frontier AI Policy, & Main Character Energy
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- 12:17
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