The speaker thinks that without an AI arms race, advanced AI systems might remain in data centers until granted permission to deploy, but AI eagerness and governments’ competitive concerns could lead to earlier deployment.

“uh retooling in world war ii where they just built a giant factory kind in the middle of nowhere um didn't have enough housing for the workers built the worker housing at the same time as the factories and then everything went very quickly so i think if we don't have that arms race we're more like yeah the geniuses sit in their data center until somebody agrees to let them out and give them permission to do these things but we think both because the ai is going to be chomping at the bit to do this and going to be asked”

“asking people to give it this permission and because the government is going to be concerned about competitors maybe these geniuses leave their data center sooner rather than later”