alt Hacker NewsYou're acting like international treaties (or cartels) don't exist. Yes, these are structures where parties have incentives to defect, and we counter those by creating incentives not to, with checks and sanctions.
Additionally, you don't need all the leaders of the world to agree to anything, you only need US and China.
Additionally x2, if you agree with the common stance that China makes the vast majority of their progress by distilling US models, you don't even need them to agree to anything.
A ban on AI looks nothing like a ban on almost every other technology that has come before it.
You're really suggesting the following bans. A ban on computer science and algorithms. A ban on any device that can play games that aren't encrypted or DRM locked from an approval authority. A ban on any kind of unregulated computing without government approval and licensing.
>China makes the vast majority of their progress by distilling US models
Eh, this is a budgetary decision, not a technological one. Why spend billions when the US can spend billions and you can spend millions. China more than has the power to do what we're doing if they chose to do so, their biggest limitation is speed of making new compute, not money or brains.