How AI Labs Proliferate

SITUATION: there are 14 competing AI labs.

“We can’t trust any of these people with super-intelligence. We need to build it ourselves to ensure it’s done right!"

“YEAH!”

SOON: there are 15 competing AI labs.

(See: xkcd on standards.)


The irony: “we’re the responsible ones” is each lab’s founding mythology as they spin out of each other.