More worried about self-replicating machines buying their own compute than about regulators
BASS 2024 10 Ben Fielding, Greg Osuri, Guy Wuollet, Steven Willinger (Stanford Blockchain Club)
“Akash in Sanskrit means the sky… Akash Net, if you translate that to Skynet — that was not by design, it was pure coincidence… I would be more concerned about self-replicating machines, more than government and policy shutting us down. If incentives are one of those things that you perfect to a point where machines themselves can create incentives to further attract more supply, what’s going to stop an AI to trade Akash token and maximize its gains and use that to purchase compute?… I think proof of personhood could be a potential solution in the future.” — 00:18:10
Context: Asked where the AGI “red button” should go; he notes Akash is proof-of-stake “managed by human beings, at least as far as I know,” and ultimately “I believe in humanity.”